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ov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia announced on Thursday the appointment of Magaly Rivera Rivera as secretary of the Puerto Rico Department of Education.

“Dr. Rivera Rivera’s ability, her human quality and her commitment to the education of our children are evidenced in her long career in the Department of Education,” the governor said in a written statement. “For this government the education of our boys and girls is a priority. With this designation I am, once again, acting with a sense of urgency and ensuring that the Department of Education has a person with the qualities and qualifications necessary to promote all the projects and common goals that we have in the education of those who are the future of our island.”

He added that “given the importance and responsibility that our Constitution imposes on us to educate

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the next generations, I hope that this appointment will be attended to with the greatest urgency and diligence.”

Pierluisi said Rivera Rivera has more than 30 years of experience in the educational system and has knowledge in the teaching, non-teaching and administrative areas.

In addition, her background includes having worked with budgets and state and federal funds, mastery of collective bargaining and knowledge of curriculum.

The designee’s work experience, since 1984, includes having worked as a regional director, state superintendent of schools, assistant superintendent of schools, director of schools and intermediate level Spanish teacher.

Rivera Rivera has a doctorate degree in school administration, a master’s degree in education with a specialty in Spanish curriculum, a second master’s degree in education with a specialty in administration and supervision, and a bachelor’s degree in secondary education.

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COVID-19 transmission rate in PR reaches numbers ‘we haven’t seen before,’ says public health expert

By PEDRO CORREA HENRY Twitter: @pete_r_correa Special to The Star

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s Puerto Rico remains on edge over rising numbers of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations of both adults and pediatric patients, and fatalities in the midst of the Puerto Rico Health Department’s efforts to inoculate the population against the coronavirus,the executive director of the Puerto Rico Public Health Trust (PRPHT) told the STAR on Thursday that the island’s reproduction number, or R0 (pronounced R naught), “is up to 1.9 or 2.0.”

During an exclusive online interview with the newspaper, Dr. José Rodriguez Orengo confirmed that this means that at least two people could have a higher risk of infection with the coronavirus per one active case.

Rodríguez Orengo further explained that the R0 was the parameter used in the United Kingdom to study if the B.1.1.7 variant was highly transmissible among the population. Earlier studies had claimed that the reproduction number in the south of England increased up to 1.5.

“We are seeing numbers that we haven’t seen before in Puerto Rico in this pandemic,” Rodríguez Orengo said. “We should be aware of this and make sure that we use all the protective wear and measures that we have applied to or told the community to engage with, such as using face masks, physical distancing of more than six feet, staying away from crowds and using sanitizers or soap to wash your hands.”

According to the website gov. uk, a United Kingdom public sector website created by the Government Digital Service, England’s Department of Health and Social Care and the Scientific Advisory Group of Emergencies, reported that the latest R0 for England is between 0.7 and 1.0.

However, with information updated on April 16, the website said that “an R-value between 0.7 and 1.0 means that, on average, every 10 people

infected will infect between seven to 10 other people.”

“These estimates represent the transmission of COVID-19 2 to 3 weeks ago, due to the time delay between someone being infected, developing symptoms, and needing healthcare,” according to the website.

Meanwhile, with politicians suggesting a lockdown to mitigate the increase in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths, Rodríguez Orengo said discussions with epidemiologists and the study of daily reported numbers continue.

He added that current data from the Puerto Rico Health Department show that, according to a model used by the institution to detect the coronavirus positivity level, the island remains “in the orange category,” which means a “substantial” positivity rate.

“We haven’t gone to the red [category], which is when we would tell the government to have a lockdown,” the PRPHT chief said.

All the same, he told the STAR, with the numbers that the island is reporting, “we are at a high transmissibility of the virus.”

“But still, there is still some space

for us to make changes in our behavior in order for us to decrease the number of people who are infected and return to the numbers that were reported back in February,” Rodríguez Orengo said. “From the beginning of the year, we were going in the right direction, lowering the numbers that we have been tracking since the beginning of the pandemic.”

As for those earlier numbers, Rodríguez Orengo said “the number of active cases went down from basically more than 200 down to 83.”

“That was a very good trend that we were looking for, and in addition to the positive rate that we had, that it was around 8 percent, it came down to 3.11%. We were almost touching the mark of 3%. That is a very good number that indicates that we were controlling the pandemic,” he said.

“However, after the first week of March, we have been increasing slowly with the number of individuals that have been infected, and maybe that was joined with the new variants that are here on the island, and the infectivity of these variants is much higher than we [anticipated based on existing] models for us to determine how many people

were going to be infected.”

Rodríguez Orengo noted that the island currently has “420 active cases per 100,000 individuals.”

“That’s more than four times what we had,” he pointed out.

When the STAR asked if more stringent measures were required to mitigate the uptick in coronavirus infections the island continues to face, Rodríguez Orengo said hospitalization numbers are being watched closely as they are reaching numbers “similar to what we had in November and December of last year.”

“We see that the ages of the people who are going to the hospital are younger, maybe they might be able to cope more with the virus, although we have seen in the last three or four days an increase in fatalities that we are also very concerned about,” he said.

“Therefore, with all that said, we are looking daily at all of these indicators.”

“If we believe that we need to go into lockdown, we won’t hesitate to tell the government and the public that we would do that,” he added.

Regarding COVID-19 vaccinations, Rodríguez Orengo told the STAR that even though some people might have a negative perception of the coronavirus vaccines, inoculations are working as data being gathered from the island and other parts of the world have proven that vulnerable populations, such as people who are 60 years and older, who have received COVID shots have not had to be hospitalized due to virus symptoms.

“I’m not saying that if you’re vaccinated, you won’t get infected,” he said.

“There is a percentage of individuals who will get vaccines and they won’t be able to produce the antibodies.”

“In addition to that, what studies have shown is that if you get vaccinated, you won’t get the symptoms that will lead you to a hospital and eventually, it will prevent you from dying,” the public health expert added.

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Report: Trump White House held up $20 billion in hurricane relief funds for PR, then officials hampered probe

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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he Trump administration held up $20 billion in hurricane relief for Puerto Rico and then obstructed an investigation into the delays, said a federal inspector general’s report, according to a story published Thursday by the Washington Post.

Congress requested the investigation into what the Post called “bureaucratic delays” of recovery aid for Puerto Rico after hurricanes Irma and Maria hit the island in September 2017.

“But, the report said, former Housing and Urban Development [HUD] Secretary Ben Carson and another former HUD official declined to be interviewed by investigators during the course of the examination that began in 2019,” the Post said. “Access to HUD information was delayed or denied on several occasions.

Several former senior administration officials in the Office of Management and Budget [OMB] refused to provide requested information about decision-making related to the Puerto Rico relief funds.”

Delays and denials of access and refusals to cooperate negatively affected the ability of the inspector general to conduct the review, according to the report, the Post said.

“The 46-page report presents an incomplete picture of the political influence of the Trump White House on delaying disaster relief for the

struggling island,” the newspaper reported.

“Still, Inspector General Rae Oliver Davis, appointed by Trump as top HUD watchdog, found unprecedented procedural hurdles set by the White House budget office -- in addition to an extended partial federal shutdown that also produced delays.”

The Post reported that the OMB required HUD’s notice of grant funds to go through an interagency review process before approval, preventing HUD from publishing its draft notice of funding by its target date.

“The OMB had never before required such a review process for a notice allocating disaster-recovery funds, according to the inspector general’s report, and there had been no previous discussion about requiring the extra step,” the Post said.

U.S. Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.) reacted with indignation to the report.

“This is about life and death issues,” said Velázquez, who made the initial call for the inspector general’s investigation. She called the delays “a way to prevent the people of Puerto Rico from access to so much needed money to prevent people from dying.”

Velázquez said Congress must now ensure that when lawmakers appropriate money to federal agencies as they did to HUD for hurricane relief, “that the administration must comply with the will of Congress.”

The Post quoted one senior HUD official, Stan Gimont, then the deputy assistant secretary for grant programs, bemoaning “the tedious review process imposed by the White House budget office as ‘kind of like Groundhog Day, just keeps coming back.’” “‘And that’s … where your frustration will set in. … It’s almost like we’re going to keep bringing this back to you until you just eat it,’” Gimont is quoted as saying in the inspector general’s report.

The newspaper reported that “[w]hile investigators interviewed 20 current and former HUD officials and two Puerto Rico housing officials, they had no access to Carson. Several senior political appointees at HUD withheld answers to questions, and White House budget office officials involved in delaying the timing of the aid also refused to cooperate.”

According to the Post story, the investigator general’s report said Carson and then-HUD Deputy Secretary Brian Montgomery “had expressed ‘mounting concerns and frustrations’ to then-acting OMB director Russell Vought about ‘HUD’s inability to make progress’ on disbursing the funds.”

“At one point, Montgomery told Vought that the White House’s actions were tantamount to holding disaster-relief funds ‘hostage,’” the Post report said.

“But the inspector general said given the lack of cooperation, investigators were unable to determine why the extra layer of review was required,” the newspaper report said.

Carson, as well as HUD, declined to comment to the Post on the inspector general’s findings.

The Post reported that the Biden administration this week removed what it called “onerous restrictions unique to Puerto Rico that limited the island’s access” to disaster recovery funds and announced the obligation of $8.2 billion in federal mitigation funds.

“Since its first days, the Biden-Harris Administration has prioritized action to enable stronger recovery for Puerto Rico,” HUD Secretary Marcia L. Fudge said in a statement, adding that the new administration’s actions would “unlock access to funds Puerto Rico needs to recover from past disasters and build resilience to future storms, while ensuring transparency and accountability.”

Parents demand reopening of schools

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group of parents called Abran Las Escuelas Ya (Open the Schools Now) demanded in an open letter to Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia on Thursday the immediate action of amending the protocol of the island Health Department for the reopening of schools, tempering it to the guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Scientific Coalition recommendations.

The “arbitrary closure of schools is contrary to the recommendations of both the CDC and the Scientific Coalition,” which state that schools in grades K-12 should be the last sector to close after exhausting all prevention measures in the community and the first to reopen when it is safe to do so, the group said in a written statement.

“This sudden closure is contrary to the best interests of the children of Puerto Rico since it goes against all the recommendations of the scientific community, without evidence of contagion and depriving families of an essential service,” said Karla Villanueva, a mother of two students.

Beatriz García, a spokesperson for the group, added that “the CDC emphasizes that schools should not be closed just because their communities are at high transmission levels, but instead decisions should be made guided by information on specific factors of the school, such as mitigation strategies that have been implemented and the number of cases among students, among other things.”

In Puerto Rico, the government has indicated that no outbreaks have occured in schools or in childcare centers, which have been open for eight months, the parents noted.

They also detailed that the American Academy of Pediatrics has established that reopening schools does not represent a significant increase in the risk of community transmission of the virus.

Group member Jan Benvenutti stressed that “it is an injustice to sacrifice our children.”

“Most schools have been prepared with all the necessary measures for the protection of students, as well as teaching and non-teaching staff,” she said. “Students deserve to have their rights protected, and the right to education is definitely being affected. Face-to-face education is essential.”

Given all the scientific evidence presented, the group demanded that the surveillance protocol for COVID-19 in the island’s educational sector be tempered in response to and in preparation for the opening of schools and that the executive order be updated to align with scientific guidelines such as those issued by the CDC, the Scientific Coalition and the American Academy of Pediatrics.

The group announced that if no action is taken in favor of the students, they will return to the streets of Old San Juan on Sunday, May 2 to hold a second demonstration against the closure of schools.

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Jaresko: Federal funds have spurred growth, but it is not sustainable

By THE STAR STAFF

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he stimulus from the federal recovery and reconstruction funds have given Puerto Rico a slight growth but that will only be lasting if the island government launches a series of structural reforms it has so far failed to take on, Financial Oversight and Management Board Executive Director Natalie Jaresko said Thursday.

During a roundtable with reporters to explain the contents of the latest fiscal plan, which the oversight board is slated to approve today, Jaresko said the 2021 fiscal plan projects about $120 billion total of federal funding, including $44 billion from COVID-related funding.

“Our analysis of the economic situation today is much different than a year ago,” she

said. “We see strong short-term economic recovery and income growth but we know that it will not translate automatically into longterm sustainable economic growth unless the government acts to create that environment.”

The fiscal plan proposed for certification projects that the economy will grow 1% in the current fiscal year (FY), following the 3% decline in the previous FY 2020. When adjusted for personal income growth from stimulus checks, the decline is only 1.1%, Jaresko said.

Growth will continue in FY 2022 but at a slower pace of 1.5% adjusted for federal funds.

So federal funds have spurred growth of two years but it will not be sustainable, she said.

In FY 2023 and FY 2024, economic growth is expected to contract because the aid will not be there.

The fiscal plan’s surplus projection over the next five years is $15.6 billion. However, Jaresko said it is likely the government will fall into a deficit in coming years even if it implements changes.

“If we do everything in the plan, we hit that government deficit in FY 2036,” she said.

She stressed the need for a series of structural reforms: human and capital reforms that include work incentives through the earned income tax credit benefits and nutritional assistance program reforms, transforming the educational system into one that improves student outcomes, enhancing the ease of doing business by relaxing the permitting process and improving infrastructure, and power sector reform that will provide clean and reliable energy.

FY 2021, which ends June 30, added an

infrastructure reform “because the economy can not grow long term if roads are congested, the air is dirty and businesses are unable to get products,” Jaresko said.

The aforementioned reforms will provide a .75% economic lift by FY 2026 and a .9% lift

by FY 2050, the oversight board official said.

By 2051, they would provide an estimated $36 billion in revenues.

Since the previous fiscal plan, Puerto Ricans have been getting vaccinated from COVID-19 and there has been a flow of federal funds, Jaresko noted.

“Those changes since the last fiscal plan, enable the outperformance in revenues in the Treasury Department,” she said.

The fiscal plan does not take into account the impact of the infrastructure plan of President Joe Biden or the impact of climate change.

Oversight board insists on priority payments to LUMA

By THE STAR STAFF

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he Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), through the federal Financial Oversight and Management Board, wants U.S. District Court Judge LauraTaylor Swain to dismiss objections raised by the power utility’s leading union, Whitefish Energy, Cobra Acquisition and the Unsecured Creditors Committee (UCC) against giving priority rank to the payments made to LUMA Energy to operate PREPA’s transmission and distribution (T&D) system once it takes over on June 1.

LUMA Energy, a joint venture between infrastructure company Quanta Services and ATCO, signed a 15-year contract last summer with an initial 10- to 12-month transition period. The contract is valued between $70 million, an amount that should go up to $105 million per year plus annual incentive fees.

Because PREPA is still in bankruptcy to restructure a $9 billion debt, LUMA Energy will rely on the terms of a supplemental agreement included in the contract once it takes over on June 1.

PREPA’s leading union, the Electrical Industry and Irrigation Workers Union (UTIER by its Spanish acronym), and the pension system, the PREPA Employees Retirement System, say the contract is invalid. Cobra Acquisitions and Whitefish Energy seek priority payments, arguing that they, essentially, perform the same work as LUMA Energy. The UCC has several objections to the contract, including LUMA Energy’s intervention in the bankruptcy process as well as the cost of a termination fee in the event LUMA cancels.

“All objectors, however, attempt to inject a host of issues designed to distract from the core inquiry (i.e. benefit to PREPA) and either attempt to block PREPA’s ability to prosecute the motion or attempt to pick and choose aspects of the T&D contract while reducing LUMA Energy’s bargained-for consideration for those services,” the oversight board argued. “In doing so, the objections largely repackage arguments this court has denied.”

The island Legislature is currently reviewing the contract.

UTIER appealed granting priority rank to the payments during the front-end transition stage to the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals.

The oversight board said its request is ripe for adjudication because the contracted services are not abstract or hypothetical.

“They are fully delineated in a valid and binding contract that has received all approvals required under Puerto Rico law and has not been amended. Once LUMA Energy performs such services, it will be entitled to compensation. The issue of whether these services benefit PREPA is thus fit for adjudication,” the oversight board said. “In contrast, PREPA would be harmed by undue delay in the commencement of the operation and management services. The sooner LUMA Energy takes over operations, the sooner the transformation.”

One of the objections is that certain conditions to execute the contract have not yet been met.

“Objectors would suffer no harm if the preconditions are not met or not waived, because the interim service commencement date would not occur and no administrative expense claim for interim obligations would accrue in favor of LUMA Energy,” the oversight board said. “Once the conditions are met (or waived), and not before, LUMA Energy will perform the Operation and Management (O&M) Services and will be paid for providing such services, but the timing of such services has no bearing on the ultimate benefit to be realized thereby.”

The objectors also argued that the administrative expense inquiry should focus on benefit to creditors.

“They contend the administrative expense claim would violate the principle of ratable distribution unless PREPA demonstrates that creditors benefit from the O&M Services,” the fiscal board said. “Objectors’ argument is a make-believe legal principle. Payment to postpetition suppliers of goods or services has never depended on the tests objectors urge this Court to impose. The Title III Court has already determined the proper inquiry is whether the services benefit the debtor, not creditors.”

The oversight board rejected the UCC’s objection to the termination fee and LUMA’s approval rights over a Title III plan.

“These arguments attempt to isolate these aspects of the Supplemental Agreement from the overall bargain of which they are an indispensable component and fail to account for

the fully negotiated bargain,” the board said. “These items are a necessary component of the overall deal to entice LUMA Energy to assume operations while PREPA remains in Title III -- a hard-fought concession the Government Parties bargained for in the negotiations. Because Bankruptcy Code section 363 is inapplicable to Title III, and approval of the T&D contract itself is not before the Court, LUMA Energy’s right of reasonable consent regarding a plan of adjustment is outside the scope of the inquiry.”

With respect to the termination fee, “the UCC cannot cherry pick components of the contract it likes and eliminate those it does not,” the oversight board said. “The termination fee was an essential component of LUMA Energy’s agreement to commence operation of PREPA’s T&D System while PREPA’s Title III Case remains ongoing given the possibility that the contract could terminate at the end of the 18-month interim period if PREPA has not exited Title III, rather than the full 15 years of the contract.”

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Biden commits U.S. to cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030

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resident Joe Biden on Thursday declared that America “has resolved to take action” on climate change and called on world leaders to significantly accelerate their own plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or risk a disastrous collective failure to stop catastrophic climate change.

In a show of renewed commitment after four years of the Trump administration’s unvarnished climate denial, Biden formally pledged that the United States would cut its emissions at least in half from 2005 levels by 2030.

Barely three months into Biden’s presidency, the contrast with his climate-denying predecessor, Donald Trump, could not have been more striking.

“The signs are unmistakable, the science is undeniable and the cost of inaction keeps mounting,” Biden said.

While the summit was billed as an international one, Biden’s speech was aimed for a domestic audience, focusing not just on America’s obligation to help cut its global emissions but on the jobs he believes are available in greening the U.S. economy.

“The countries that take decisive actions now” to tackle climate change, Biden said, “will be the ones that reap the clean energy benefits of the boom that’s coming.”

The target of 50% to 52% by the end of the decade calls for a steep and rapid decline of fossil fuel use in virtually every sector of the U.S. economy and marks the start of what is sure to be a bitter partisan fight over achieving it.

It is also a significant step up from the Obama administration’s pledge of a 25% to 28% reduction by 2025, and it is meant to signal that Biden’s decision to rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change is just the start of an aggressive effort that will include trying to press other nations forward.

The summit is the first of its kind to be convened

President Joe Biden speaks during a virtual Leaders Summit on Climate, at the White House in Washington on Thursday, April 22, 2021, as Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry looks on. by a U.S. president, and Biden is joined not only by allies like Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada but also adversaries like President Xi Jinping of China, President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil.

Speaking with reporters Wednesday night, one senior administration official said the new target would give the United States significant leverage for pushing other countries to do more and hinted at new target announcements Thursday from Canada, Argentina and Korea — although not from China, the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter.

Just before Biden was set to speak, Japan announced it will cut emissions 46% below 2013 levels by the end of the decade, a significant show of solidarity with the United States.

Supporters said the lineup and new announcements after three months of U.S. prodding underscores

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the unique role that the United States plays in climate negotiations.

Both the world’s largest historic emitter and the largest economy, the United States has long frustrated the climate community by oscillating between action and inaction, yet despite a loss of credibility in some quarters, some say its bully pulpit remains as strong as ever.

“We are still in a period of history in which the United States remains the only nation that can provide effective leadership for the world community,” former Vice President Al Gore said in an interview.

The two-day summit comes at a time when scientists are warning that governments must take decisive action to avoid global temperatures from rising more than 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels. The consequences of exceeding that threshold includes mass species extinctions, water shortages and extreme weather events that will be most devastating to the poorest countries least responsible for causing global warming.

Biden made the case that with the U.S. representing about 15% of global emissions, all countries must step up their ambition. The test will be whether he can galvanize them to do so.

Domestically, Biden will be hard-pressed to win Republican support for his commitment, and without it, he will face skepticism that his promises will stick any more than President Barack Obama’s did.

“The American people don’t need arbitrary pledges or Democrats’ command-and-control approach that could cripple our economy without addressing the true problem that is global emissions,” Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, the House Republican leader, said in a statement.

Officially, nations that are party to the Paris agreement are obligated to announce their new targets for emissions cuts in time for a U.N. conference in Scotland in November.

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Worker set off outbreak at nursing home where most were immunized

By RONY CARYN RABIN

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n unvaccinated health care worker set off a COVID-19 outbreak at a nursing home in Kentucky where the vast majority of residents had been vaccinated, leading to dozens of infections, including 22 cases among residents and employees who were already fully vaccinated, a new study reported Wednesday.

Most of those who were infected with the coronavirus despite being vaccinated did not develop symptoms or require hospitalization, but one vaccinated individual, who was a resident of the nursing home, died, according to the study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Altogether, 26 facility residents were infected, including 18 who had been vaccinated, and 20 health care personnel were infected, including four who had been vaccinated. Two unvaccinated residents also died.

The report underscores the importance of vaccinating both nursing home residents and health care workers who go in and out of the sites, the authors said. While 90% of the 83 residents at the Kentucky nursing home had been vaccinated, only half of the 116 employees had been vaccinated when the outbreak was identified in March.

The study, released in tandem with one involving Chicago nursing homes, underscored the importance of maintaining measures like use of protective gear, infection control protocols and routine testing, no matter the level of vaccination rates. The rise of virus variants also has increased concerns.

Resistance to vaccines has been steep among nursing home staffs nationwide, and the low acceptance rates of vaccination increase the likelihood of outbreaks in facilities, according to the authors, a team of investigators from the CDC and Kentucky’s public health department.

A healthcare worker spoke with a resident and his visitors at a nursing home in Collins, Miss., this month. A new study on recent nursing home outbreaks reinforces the importance of vaccinating both residents and staff.

“To protect skilled nursing facility residents, it is imperative that health care providers, as well as skilled nursing facility residents, be vaccinated,” the authors of the Kentucky study wrote.

The outbreak involved a variant of the virus that has multiple mutations in the spike protein, of the kind that make the vaccines less effective. Vaccinated residents and health care workers at the Kentucky facility were less likely to be infected than those who had not been vaccinated, and they were far less likely to develop symptoms.

The study estimated that the vaccine, identified as Pfizer-BioNTech, showed effectiveness of 66% for residents and 75.9% for employees, and were 86% to 87% effective at protecting against symptomatic disease.

In the Kentucky outbreak, the virus variant is not on the CDC’s list of those considered variants of concern or interest. But, the study authors note, the variant does have several mutations of importance: D614G, which demonstrates evidence of increased transmissibility; E484K in the receptor-binding domain of the spike protein, which is also seen in B.1.351, the variant first

recognized in South Africa, and P.1. of Brazil; and W152L, which might reduce effectiveness of neutralizing antibodies.

In Chicago, meanwhile, routine screening of nursing home residents and staff members identified 627 coronavirus infections in 78 skilled nursing facilities in the city in February, but only 22 were found in individuals who were already fully vaccinated. Two-thirds of the cases in the vaccinated individuals were asymptomatic, the report found, but two residents were hospitalized, and one died.

The authors of the Chicago study said their findings demonstrate that nursing homes should continue to follow recommended infection control practices, such as isolation and quarantine, use of personal protective equipment and doing routine testing, regardless of vaccination status.

They also emphasized the importance of “maintaining high vaccination coverage among residents and staff members” in order to “reduce opportunities for transmission within facilities and exposure among persons who might not have achieved protective immunity after vaccination.”

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Manhattan to stop prosecuting prostitution, part of nationwide shift

By JONAH E. BROMWICH

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he Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday that it would no longer prosecute prostitution and unlicensed massage, putting the weight of one of the most high-profile law enforcement offices in the United States behind the growing movement to change the criminal justice system’s approach to sex work.

The district attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr., asked a judge Wednesday morning to dismiss 914 open cases involving prostitution and unlicensed massage, along with 5,080 cases in which the charge was loitering for the purposes of prostitution.

The law that made the latter charge a crime, which had become known as the “walking while trans” law, was repealed by New York state in February.

The announcement represents a substantive shift in the office’s approach

to prostitution. Many of the cases Vance moved to dismiss dated to the 1970s and 1980s, when New York waged a war against prostitution in an effort to clean up its image as a center of iniquity and vice.

“Over the last decade, we’ve learned from those with lived experience and from our own experience on the ground: Criminally prosecuting prostitution does not make us safer, and too often, achieves the opposite result by further marginalizing vulnerable New Yorkers,” Vance said in a statement.

The office will continue to prosecute other crimes related to prostitution, including patronizing sex workers, promoting prostitution and sex trafficking, and said that its policy would not stop it from bringing other charges that stem from prostitutionrelated arrests.

That means, in effect, that the office will continue to prosecute pimps and sex traffickers as well as people who pay for sex, continuing to fight those who exploit or otherwise

profit from prostitution without punishing the people who for decades have borne the brunt of law enforcement’s attention.

Manhattan will join Baltimore, Philadelphia and other jurisdictions that have declined to prosecute sex workers.

Brooklyn also does not prosecute people arrested for prostitution but instead refers them to social services before they are compelled to appear in court — unless the district attorney’s office there is unable to reach them.

The Brooklyn district attorney, Eric Gonzalez, in January moved to dismiss hundreds of open cases related to prostitution and loitering, and said that he would eventually ask that more than 1,000 be dismissed. The Queens and Bronx district attorneys followed in March, moving to dismiss hundreds of prostitution-related cases.

Vance’s office had been in the practice of dismissing prostitution cases after sending those charged to mandatory counseling

sessions. Going forward, Vance’s statement said, such counseling sessions would be provided only on a voluntary basis.

Sex workers have been fighting for decriminalization for decades. But the 2019 formation of Decrim NY, a coalition of organizations that support full decriminalization and has worked to lobby lawmakers, represented a turning point for the movement.

In New York City, those calls have grown louder. Last month, Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, called on the state to end criminal penalties for sex workers.

“The communities hit hardest by the continued criminalization of sex work and human trafficking are overwhelmingly LGBTQ, they are people of color, and they are undocumented immigrants,” McCray said at the time. “Sex work is a means of survival for many in these marginalized groups.”

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April 23-25, 2021

Biden administration debating how to overhaul a Trump-era tax break

By JIM TANKERSLEY

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he Biden administration is weighing how to overhaul a Trump-era tax incentive that was pitched as a way to drive investment to economically depressed swaths of the country but which early evidence suggests has primarily fueled real estate development in areas like Brooklyn neighborhoods that were already becoming richer and whiter.

Administration officials have not yet settled on how to make adjustments that critics and supporters alike say would improve the so-called opportunity zone program, a creation of President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax law that Joe Biden vowed on the campaign trail to reform.

The zones give tax breaks to certain investors who pour money into designated areas, which include high-poverty communities but also some neighborhoods that are rapidly gentrifying. Trump praised the zones repeatedly and claimed they were pulling large amounts of investment into impoverished neighborhoods, particularly Black ones.

“They’re the hottest thing you’ve seen,” Trump said in North Carolina in February last year. “Tremendous amounts of money being put into areas that hadn’t seen money for decades and decades.”

The most comprehensive study of investment in the zones to date, released by a pair of University of California, Berkeley, researchers last week, contradicts Trump’s assessment of the zones’ early performance. The authors, Patrick Kennedy and Harrison Wheeler, are graduate economics students who were granted access to anonymous tax returns filed electronically.

Kennedy is also an economic analyst at the

Restaurants in Fort Greene, Brooklyn on April 4, 2021. The Biden administration is looking for ways to improve so-called opportunity zones, a program established by the Trump administration that helps high-poverty communities but also some areas like Brooklyn that are rapidly gentrifying. congressional Joint Committee on Taxation.

The study suggests that in 2019, only about 16% of the 8,000 census tracts nationwide that were designated by state officials as opportunity zones using criteria set under the Trump administration received any investment at all. Rural areas received almost no investment. Most of the capital was concentrated in a small slice of zones.

Investors mostly flocked to real estate, construction and finance businesses in areas “with pre-existing upward trends in population, income and home values” that predated the creation of the zones, along with “declining shares of elderly and non-

white residents,” the authors wrote.

A collection of business groups, investor organizations and others involved in the zones — including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Economic Innovation Group, the Washington think thank that first proposed the opportunity zone concept — suggested detailed changes to the administration last month. That included changes the Treasury Department and Congress could make to improve the program’s performance, including new reporting requirements for investments in the zones and additional flexibility to allow investors to put money into affordable housing projects.

“The opportunity zones incentive is well on its way toward making its intended impact in struggling communities across the country,” they wrote, “but its effectiveness could be enhanced through a number of targeted improvements.”

John Lettieri, the president of the innovation group, said that the need for improvements to the program had been clear for years, and that the Berkeley study did not show it was failing.

“We’re grading an incomplete. It’s far too early, and the data are too incomplete, to draw definitive conclusions about what is and is not working,” Lettieri said. “In the absence of all the things that create a stable market, to nevertheless see a stable market taking shape is promising.”

Opportunity zones convey tax advantages to investors who take the proceeds of a capital gain, like the sale of a stock or a business, and invest them through a fund into a qualifying project in a designated zone. They were a largely overlooked provision of Trump’s tax law when Congress was debating it in 2017, but after the law’s signing, the zones have stirred interest from investors on Wall Street, along with philanthropists and city leaders looking to revitalize distressed areas.

Critics of the program say the regulations issued by Trump’s Treasury Department, which were meant to clarify what sort of investments would qualify for the special tax treatment, are unlikely to drive much investment into the sorts of projects that would help struggling people and communities, such as new businesses that would create jobs in areas with persistently high unemployment. Critics say evidence suggests the zones could be rewarding wealthy investors for projects that might well have happened even without the tax breaks. That includes a Mississippi sawmill that Trump spotlighted in 2019, which a new owner agreed to buy even before state officials decided to designate an area including the mill as an opportunity zone.

“It’s hard to see any evidence that low- and moderate-income people are benefiting from this incentive,” said Brett Theodos, director of the Community Development Economic Hub at the Urban Institute in Washington. “The Biden administration right now could institute reforms and make this program work a lot better for communities.”

The Treasury has already issued one regulation governing the zones, and more are on the way. Still, the program has not yet risen to the top of the president’s tax agenda, administration officials say, given the other priorities that the White House is trying to push through Congress, including a $2.3 trillion infrastructure package.

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Wall Street hit by capital tax increase report; dollar ticks up G lobal stocks fell on Thursday weighed by Wall Street after a report that the Biden administration will propose a sharp increase to capital gains tax, while the dollar index gained as the euro and pound gave back some of the month’s gains.

Oil prices were little changed as concerns over Libyan output offset worries that rising coronavirus cases in India and Japan would cause energy demand to decline.

On Wall Street, indexes turned lower after a Bloomberg report that the Biden administration would propose to lift the capitals gains tax to near 40% for wealthy individuals, nearly double the current rate.

“If they’re going to tax people more and their net is going to fall, the value of that instrument is lower.

Incentives matter,” said Kim Forrest, chief investment officer at Bokeh Capital Partners in Pittsburgh.

“A lot of money that’s in the market at this point is non taxable, and I don’t think people do that calculation. Whenever they see news (like this), they just sell, they want to take the gains this year.”

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 394.34 points, or 1.16%, to 33,742.97, the S&P 500 lost 44.88 points, or 1.08%, to 4,128.54 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 153.66 points, or 1.1%, to 13,796.56.

MSCI’s gauge of stocks across the globe shed 0.35% and the pan-European STOXX 600 index rose 0.68%. Emerging market stocksrose 0.28%.

MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan closed 0.28% higher, while Japan’s Topix rose 1.82%.

Treasury yields fell alongside stocks on the capital gains tax issue.

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Oil prices were in and out of positive territory as traders weighed lower output in Libya with concern over demand from India, the third-largest global consumer.

“The market realized that a global comeback in oil demand cannot come without a comeback of the world’s largest economies,” said Bjornar Tonhaugen, head of oil markets at Rystad Energy, noting “India is diving deeper and deeper into a major crisis with infections setting new records every day.”

U.S. crude rose 0.02% to $61.36 per barrel and Brent was at $65.30, down 0.03% on the day.

In currency markets, the dollar rose as the pound gave back some of its recent sharp gains while the euro was weighed by an ECB statement that was hopeful on the economic recovery but lacking in details about the stimulus removal.

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Trudeau was a global climate hero. Now Canada risks falling behind.

An iceberg off Cape Dorset, an Inuit community in Nunavut, Canada, June 9, 2019.

There is growing evidence that Nunavut’s glaciers are retreating and shrinking, in part due to iceberg calving as a result of climate change.

By IAN AUSTEN and CHRISTOPHER FAVELLE

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rime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada will arrive for President Joe Biden’s climate summit on Thursday with an outsize reputation for being a warrior in the global fight against climate change.

But one facet of Canada’s economy complicates his record: the country’s insistence on expanding output from its oil sands.

Between Trudeau’s election in 2015 and 2019, Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions increased by 1%, despite decreases in other rich nations during the same period, according to government data released last week. In fact, Canada is the only Group of 7 country whose emissions have risen since the Paris climate agreement was signed six years ago.

Canadian officials insist that Trudeau’s policies simply need more time to work.

But environmentalists counter that Canada can’t reduce emissions without reducing oil production from the sands.

As one of the world’s largest oil reserves, the oil sands are also among the most polluting, given the amount of energy required to extract it. But it’s unlikely that Trudeau would end production there.

The oil sands are integral to the economy of the western province of Alberta. If Trudeau or any other Canadian politician declared them obsolete, the political backlash would be overwhelming.

“There’s a disconnect, at least on the international stage, between Canada’s reputation on climate and the reality of action on the ground,” said Catherine Abreu, executive director of Climate Action Network Canada, a coalition of about 100

labor, Indigenous, environmental and religious groups. “We really have to stop selling ourselves that perhaps comforting, but dangerous, lie that there is room for the oil sands in the future.”

Tim McMillan, president and CEO of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, which represents oil companies, said in a statement that average emissions per barrel of oil from the oil sands have decreased by 21% since 2009, and are projected to drop further.

“The oil sands industry is taking emissions reduction seriously,” McMillan said.

“Production growth can be compatible with emissions reductions.”

Few dispute Trudeau’s commitment to stopping climate change. Canada increased its carbon price — which provinces must adopt or have imposed by the federal government — to 40 Canadian dollars a metric ton this month and it is scheduled to rise to CA$170 by the end of the decade. The government has also moved forward on clean fuel standards, as well as limiting leaks of methane, a potent climate change gas, and other measures.

On Monday, Canada said it is on track for a 36% emissions reduction by 2030, compared with 2005 levels.

Trudeau’s actions contrasted starkly with the United States under former President Donald Trump, who dismissed climate change and reversed U.S. policies to combat it.

Now Biden has made climate a central issue for his administration. At the summit, he is expected to announce that the United States will cut its greenhouse gas emissions by about half by 2030, compared with 2005 levels.

Trudeau is expected to announce a new reduction target for the same period, but few experts expect him to match Biden’s cut.

The timing could leave Canada in a bind, according to Dale Beugin, vice president for research and analysis at the Canadian Institute for Climate Choices, a nonpartisan research group.

Trudeau’s pledge to raise the carbon tax to CA$170, announced late last year, is already seen as ambitious, he said.

Canada will need to take additional measures, Beugin said, because Canada’s carbon tax, combined with other existing

policies, will be “just barely” enough for it to reach its current target. “If they go bigger,” he asked, “what else are they going to do?”

If Canada lags too far behind the United States in reducing emissions, it could face repercussions, including the imposition of U.S. carbon tariffs on Canadian goods crossing the border, said Jake Schmidt of the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental advocacy group.

“It’ll be quite obvious to the world who’s really serious about climate change and who’s taking half measures,” he added.

Canada’s environment minister, Jonathan Wilkinson, declined to reveal the country’s new target in advance of the summit. But he cautioned against judging countries solely by the targets they present this week.

The United States, he said, is in a much better position to realistically propose big cuts in the near term, adding while the United States was encouraging the world to ignore climate change the past few years, Canada was plowing forward.

“The United States perhaps has some things that it can learn from the experiences that we’ve had,” he said.

Biden’s climate agenda, Wilkinson argued, benefits from some low-hanging fruit: the large amount of electricity still produced by burning coal and other fossil fuels. The falling cost of renewable energy is already reducing the use of coal, pushing down U.S. emissions.

“The United States, in some respects, has a pretty big tail wind with respect to the increasing phaseout of coal,” he said.

Many environmentalists in Canada say that rather than subsidize the energy industry, Trudeau’s government should openly acknowledge that the oil sands are a declining industry and start focusing on managing that decline and investing in new job opportunities for its thousands of workers.

“Canada’s oil gas sector produces some of the dirtiest and most expensive fossil fuels in the world,” said Abreu of Climate Action Network Canada. “It’s really unrealistic for governments in this country to keep telling the public that we can expect that industry to continue indefinitely.”

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April 23-25, 2021

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Where did Chad rebels prepare for their own war? In Libya.

By DECLAN WALSH

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he rebels pulled off a stunning feat. Barely a week after their armed convoy roared across the desert into northern Chad, they kicked off a battle that on Monday claimed the biggest scalp of all: Idriss Déby, Chad’s iron-fisted president of three decades, killed on the battlefield when a shell exploded near his vehicle, according to a senior aide.

On Wednesday, a day after his death was announced, a sense of apprehension and disbelief reverberated through the capital, Ndjamena, where the military formally installed as interim president Déby’s 37-year-old son, Mahamat Idriss Déby. Rumors of an impending rebel attack on the city coursed through its streets.

But the secret of the rebels’ striking success thus far lay behind them, across Chad’s northern border in Libya, where they have been fighting as soldiers of fortune for years, amassing weapons, money and battlefield experience, according to United Nations investigators, regional experts and Chadian officials. In effect, the rebels used Libya’s chaotic war to prepare for their own campaign in Chad.

Until recently, they were employed by Khalifa Hifter, a powerful Libyan commander once championed by former President Donald Trump. They fought with weapons supplied by the United Arab Emirates, one of Hifter’s main foreign sponsors.

And they were based last year at a sprawling Libyan military air base alongside mercenaries from the Wagner Group, the Kremlin-backed private company that is considered a spearhead for Russia’s covert efforts to spread its military influence across Africa.

Experts say the unexpected coup by the Chadian rebels offers a stark example of how the decadeold power vacuum in Libya, starting with the ouster of dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 2011, has incubated an array of mercenaries and other armed groups, some of which are spreading chaos in the region.

In a statement on Wednesday, the rebels, who go by the name Front for Change and Concord in Chad (FACT, by its French acronym), threatened to march on Ndjamena this weekend, following Déby’s funeral, which is planned for Friday.

Whether the rebels can deliver on that threat is unclear.

They suffered heavy losses early this week — Chad’s military claimed to have killed 300 rebels — and foreign military officials are unsure how far the rebel force is from the capital.

Even so, the Chadian military fortified defenses around the presidential palace on Wednesday, where officials denied per-

A billboard depicting Khalifa Hifter in Benghazi, Libya, Jan. 19, 2020. Until recently, Chadian rebels were employed by Hifter, a powerful Libyan commander once championed by President Donald Trump. sistent rumors that Déby’s successor, his son Mahamat, had also been killed or injured.

“If he has been shot or dead, that means he’s a good actor, because he is alive and kicking,” said Acheikh Ibn Oumar, a senior presidential adviser who said he was speaking from inside the palace.

There are still questions about the circumstances of the elder Déby’s death, and whether he was in fact killed by a rival.

But Ibn Oumar, echoing statements by military leaders, insisted the president was killed when a rebel shell exploded near his vehicle near Nokou, 170 miles north of Ndjamena.

Idriss Déby was killed on the day he won his sixth election, which was marred by irregularities. Western countries had largely overlooked his dismal record of corruption and rights abuses because he was a bulwark against the rising tide of Islamic militancy in the Sahel, an arid swath bordering the Sahara that spans six African countries.

France has had a continued military presence in Ndja-

mena since 1986, and its counterterrorism operation in the Sahel, known as Operation Barkhane, has been headquartered in Chad’s capital since its launch in 2014. France says at least 1,000 of its soldiers are based in Chad.

But the rebels looking to overthrow Idriss Déby represented an array of local grievances against the 31-year rule of an oldfashioned African strongman accused by critics of squandering Chad’s considerable oil revenues, leaving it among the poorest countries on Earth.

Since the 1990s, an array of rebel groups, many defined by ethnic identity, have sought to overthrow him. Some were based in the Darfur region of western Sudan, where they received funding and weapons from Sudanese dictator Omar alBashir.

After al-Bashir and Idriss Déby struck a peace deal in 2010 and agreed to stop backing rebels fighting each other’s governments, the Chadian rebels were forced to leave Sudan. They found a new base, a year later, in Libya.

In the chaos that followed the ouster and death of Gadhafi in 2011, rival Libyan factions hired African mercenaries to fight alongside their own forces. The Chadians, who have a reputation as dogged desert fighters, were in high demand.

Some Chadians even swapped sides, if the price was right.

The FACT started out with out with a Libyan faction based in the central city of Misurata, said a United Nations official who has spoken with the group’s leadership but was not authorized to speak to the media. But by 2019 they had switched their support to a rival faction, led by Hifter, which had launched a campaign to seize the capital, Tripoli.

The Chadians are by no means the best-known foreign mercenaries in Libya. Far greater attention has been paid to the Russian and Syrian fighters who played a key role in Hifter’s push for Tripoli.

But the money, weapons and experience gathered by African mercenaries, mostly from Chad and Sudan, is now being put to use in other countries.

A U.N. report published in February noted that FACT fighters were based at a major military air base in Al Jufra, in central Libya — an airfield that is also a hub for Russian mercenaries from the Wagner group, which has received cargo flights carrying weapons from the United Arab Emirates.

The U.N. also noted that an airplane owned by Erik Prince, the former Blackwater owner who organized an ill-fated $80 million mercenary operation for Hifter, had been photographed at the Jufra air base.

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April 23-25, 2021

India sets a new global record for daily infections

By SHASHANK BENGALI

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arking a grave new milestone in the coronavirus pandemic, India recorded 312,731 new infections in a 24hour period, the Indian Health Ministry said Thursday. It is the highest daily case count in a single country since the virus surfaced in China more than a year ago.

India’s total eclipsed the previous single-day high of 300,669 cases, set in the United States on Jan. 8, according to a New York Times database.

Over the past two months, the outbreak in India has exploded, with reports of superspreader gatherings, oxygen shortages and ambulances lined up outside hospitals because there are no ventilators for new patients.

As cases worldwide reach new weekly records, 40% of the infections are coming from India, a sobering reminder that the pandemic is far from over, even as infections decline and vaccinations speed ahead in the United States and other wealthy parts of the world. India has surpassed 15.6 million total infections, second most after the United States.

The death toll has also begun to climb precipitously.

On Thursday, the Indian government recorded 2,104 deaths, and an average of

more than 1,300 people have died of the virus every day for the past week. That is less than at the worst points of the pandemic in the United States or Brazil, but it is a steep increase from just two months ago, when fewer than 100 people in India were dying daily.

There are signs that the country’s health system, patchy even before the pandemic, is collapsing under the strain. On Tuesday, at least 22 people died in an accident in the central city of Nashik when a leak in a hospital’s main oxygen tank cut the flow of oxygen to COVID-19 patients.

The picture is staggeringly different from early February, when India was recording an average of just 11,000 cases a day, and domestic drug companies were pumping out millions of vaccine doses. More than 132 million Indians have received at least one dose, but supplies are running low, and experts warn that the country is unlikely to meet its goal of inoculating 300 million people by the summer.

Critics say Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who imposed a harsh nationwide lockdown in March 2020 in the early stages of the pandemic, failed to prepare for a second wave or to warn Indians to remain vigilant against the virus, especially as more infectious variants began to spread.

Modi’s Hindu nationalist government has also allowed a massive Hindu festival to

take place, drawing millions of pilgrims to the banks of the Ganges River, and his party has held jam-packed political rallies in several states.

“India’s rapid slide into this unprecedented crisis is a direct result of complacency and lack of preparation by the government,” Ramanan Laxminarayan, the director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and

Policy in Washington, wrote in The New York Times on Tuesday.

The hardest hit region is Maharashtra, a populous western state that includes the financial hub of Mumbai. On Wednesday, the state’s top leader ordered government offices to operate at 15% capacity and imposed new restrictions on weddings and private transportation to slow the spread of the virus.

A man who died of complications from the coronavirus was being cremated in Mumbai on Wednesday.

Deadly blast hits Pakistan hotel, missing China’s envoy by perhaps just minutes

By IHSANULLAH TIPU MEHSUD

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powerful explosion apparently from a suicide bomber struck the parking lot of a luxury hotel in southwest Pakistan frequented by high-level guests Wednesday, and officials said at least four people had been killed and 12 wounded. China’s ambassador to Pakistan may have missed the blast by mere minutes.

The ambassador, Nong Rong, was leading a Chinese delegation that had been visiting the area and staying at the hotel, the Serena, in Quetta, capital of Baluchistan province.

“The Chinese were staying at Serena Hotel but they were not present at the hotel at the time of the attack,” Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, Pakistan’s interior minister, told local news media.

The Chinese delegation was safe and all

casualties were of Pakistani nationals, officials said. Two senior civilian officials were among the wounded.

It was unclear if the Chinese visitors had been the targets of the attack, which was claimed by the Pakistani Taliban, or Tehrik-eTaliban Pakistan, known as the TTP. But the group’s statement of responsibility said a suicide bomber had intended to strike a meeting of “local and foreigners” at the Serena.

China is considered an important ally of Pakistan and has undertaken several infrastructure projects along with a deep seaport in Baluchistan province.

An intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss security matters, said the Chinese ambassador had attended a dinner with senior Pakistani army officials and was en route back to the hotel and was only minutes away when the blast

occurred.

There was no immediate official confirmation that the attack had been carried out by a suicide bomber, as claimed by the TTP. Officials said the initial investigation suggested that explosives had been inside a vehicle that exploded in the parking lot.

The blast was heard at a long distance and heavily damaged more than a dozen vehicles in the parking lot of the hotel. It is in a heavily guarded neighborhood with many important government buildings.

Pakistani officials acknowledged that the explosion amounted to a major security breach.

Baluchistan is rich in minerals and natural gas, and the province is also viewed by Pakistani officials as an arena for proxy wars between regional and international powers, including India and Iran.

Baluch separatists have frequently targeted the Chinese presence in Baluchistan. A luxury hotel in Gwadar, a town in the coastal region where China is working on a deep seaport project, came under attack by Baluch separatists in 2019.

“Given the multiplicity of groups that seek to target Chinese interests, I would take the TTP’s claim with a grain of salt,” said Arif Rafiq, president of Vizier Consulting, a New York-based political risk advisory company.

“But if the group is indeed responsible, the attack reflects a strengthening of its capability to strike high-security urban targets in Pakistan.”

He also observed that the TTP’s claim of responsibility did not specifically refer to Chinese nationals or interests, so it was possible “that the attackers were actually unaware of their presence.”

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With the Chauvin verdict, one battle is won. The war continues.

By CHARLES M. BLOW

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istory has been a stern instructor of Black people in this country, beating out hope wherever it dares to emerge.

As James Baldwin once put it, there is embedded in the American Negro the “wise desire not to be betrayed by too much hoping.” The possessor of dashed hopes is in some ways more injured and dangerous than the consistently hopeless. The possessors of dashed hopes spread their wings, which make them vulnerable, and get them clipped. Bitterness is a natural byproduct of such betrayal.

Before Tuesday’s guilty verdict for a former Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, in the murder of George Floyd, many of us were afraid to hope that justice would be done. It doesn’t matter the strength of the case or the preponderance of evidence; convicting a police officer of killing a Black man is so rare in this country that I can count the recent cases I recall on my fingers … on one hand.

So when the verdicts came down, for me, there was a moment of shock: The justice system had administered justice to a Black man, a Black family, the Black community, the country and the world. We are so used to the system betraying us that it was stunning to see it serve us.

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se we should have, and did.

But even in celebrating that victory, there is sadness.

Why is the hurdle set to that nearly impossible height?

Must your killing be in slow motion and caught on not one video but multiples?

Must the “Blue Wall” crack and your police chief testify against you? Must a child be put on the stand to explain how your killer’s depraved act has traumatized them?

Most killings of unarmed Black people by the police won’t have that. Most will have the officers’ account and the police department’s statements.

The Minneapolis Police Department’s initial statement on Floyd’s death was headlined, “Man Dies After Medical Incident During Police Interaction,” and it went on to say of Floyd: “He was ordered to step from his car. After he got out, he physically resisted officers … Officers called for an ambulance. He was transported to Hennepin County Medical Center by ambulance where he died a short time later.”

That would have been the story, were it not for witnesses and cellphone video. The truth would have circulated in the community, but the lie would live on in the official record.

This is how many cases live, unresolved, in oral history told from a barber chair or bar stool. This is also how hostility, resentment and contempt grow toward policing, criminal justice and politicians. This is why the fundamentals of our criminal justice system must be reshaped in order to restore trust.

So, yes, we celebrate. Even warriors, in an uphill battle, those outgunned and accustomed to loss, are afforded and allowed a moment of celebration over a surprise victory. Such moments can be recharging and restorative. It doesn’t mean that we are confusing the war that still rages for the battle in which we were victorious.

The fight against rules on every level of government that insulate officers and criminalize Black people are part of the war. Systems of racism that have created segregation, concentrated poverty, poorly resourced com-

munities and failing educational systems are part of the war. A public perception that what ails Black people is pathological and that all policing is good and gallant is part of the problem.

It is important to remember that the verdict against Derek Chauvin didn’t change a single police union rule that protects officers from incriminating themselves. It didn’t change a word of the criminal code, which can shield them from prosecution. It didn’t alter a single federal or Supreme Court precedent that prevented them from being convicted.

There are enormous hurdles to overcome in the arrest, charging, trial and conviction of an officer. What this case demonstrated was that there is — at least in this jurisdiction and with these jurors — a limit. It took a case so obvious, so egregious, so depraved, that it could clear the hurdles.

In this extraordinary case, there was justice for George Floyd. But until justice for Black people killed by the state exists not only in the extraordinary case but also in the mundane, until it is not shocking that an officer is held accountable for murder, the crusade continues. One battle is won, but we are still in the middle of the war for equality.

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Jenniffer González y Miguel Romero presentan iniciativas federales para la conmemoración de los 500 años de San Juan Por THE STAR

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a comisionada residente, Jenniffer González Colón, junto al alcalde de San Juan, Miguel Romero y la congresista por Nueva York, Nydia Velázquez, anunciaron el jueves, la radicación de una Resolución en la Cámara de Representantes de Estados Unidos para reconocer los 500 años de la fundación de la ciudad de San Juan de Puerto Rico. La resolución cuenta con los siguientes autores: Jenniffer González Colón, Nydia Velázquez, Stephanie Murphy, Darren Soto, Mario Díaz Balart y Carlos Giménez.

La medida busca celebrar la historia de la ciudad y a la vez que se reconozca a San Juan como la más antigua ciudad continuamente habitada, establecida por europeos dentro del territorio de los Estados Unidos al haber sido fundada en 1521.

Las celebraciones del quinto centenario de San Juan serán de septiembre de 2021 a mayo 2022.

“Con esta resolución se busca extender la celebración del quinto centenario de San Juan para que sea una reconocida a través de todos los Estados Unidos, para que en toda la nación conozcan de la ciudad más antigua bajo su bandera y compartan el orgullo que tenemos por nuestro patrimonio de la humanidad. Los sentimientos que evoca San Juan en cada persona que la visita o que la vive, en todos en la isla, la nostalgia en quienes ahora residen en los estados, son profundos y reflejan ese carácter único, nacido de una historia que ha visto tanto batallas como fiestas y dejado quinientos años de un legado que no es sólo monumentos y fechas sino un pueblo y una manera de vivir que aporta a la gran diversidad de la nación”, expresó la comisionada residente,González Colón en conferencia de prensa.

Por su parte, el alcalde del Municipio de San Juan,Miguel Romero Lugo, indicó que “nuestra Ciudad Capital es cultura, historia y tradición. La celebración del quinto centenario es por sí solo un momento memorable para la presente y futuras generaciones. San Juan es patrimonio de nuestra sociedad y estamos honrados de poder celebrarlo y reconocerlo con el mundo”.

Romero Lugo agradeció a la comisionada residente por radicar una Resolución en la Cámara de Representantes de Estados Unidos para reconocer los 500 años de la fundación de la ciudad de San Juan. “Gracias a Jenniffer González por su compro-

miso con todos los sanjuaneros. Promover nuestra Ciudad Capital resaltando sus virtudes es sin duda un gesto loable y digno de nuestro apoyo. Aprovecho además la oportunidad para invitarlos a todos a conocer y disfrutar de nuestra Ciudad”.

“Los lazos entre Puerto Rico y Florida son increíblemente fuertes y los floridanos se preocupan profundamente por nuestros conciudadanos americanos en la isla”, dijo Murphy. “Me enorgullece unirme a la representante de Puerto Rico en el Congreso, Jenniffer González-Colón, en la presentación de esta resolución para conmemorar el 500 aniversario de la fundación de San Juan, la hermosa e icónica capital de Puerto Rico”.

De aprobarse la medida, se reconocería el aniversario de los 500 años de la fundación de la ciudad de San Juan, Puerto Rico; se promovería honrar la historia de la ciudad de San Juan; y se exhortaría a que las personas en el resto de los Estados Unidos observen y reconozcan el aniversario del quinto centenario de la ciudad de San Juan.

La exposición de motivos narra la historia de la capital de Puerto Rico, su importancia histórica como la ciudad más antigua de los Estados Unidos y la tercera de toda las Américas; en ella está la segunda iglesia más antigua de América, la Iglesia San José, construida en 1532; San Juan alberga la mansión ejecutiva de uso continuo más antigua de América, el Palacio de Santa Catalina; la tumba del primer gobernador de Puerto Rico y explorador del actual estado de la Florida al cual le dio ese nombre, Juan Ponce de León, está enterrada en la Catedral de San Juan; la herencia cultural y arquitectónica de

San Juan es reconocida por las Naciones Unidas al catalogarla como Patrimonio de la Humanidad.

En una de las magníficas fortificaciones, el Morro, se disparó el primer tiro por parte de los Estados Unidos durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, este fue al submarino alemán Odenwald. La primera alcaldesa de una capital en toda América fue doña Felisa Rincón de Guatier en San Juan, quien con la implementación de las llamadas escuelas maternales, formó el modelo de los actuales Head Start; además, la ciudad de San Juan ha sido anfitriona de importantes eventos deportivos.

Mañana, la comisionada y el alcalde se reunirán con el embajador de España en Estados Unidos, D. Santiago Cabañas Ansorena, para iniciar conversaciones sobre la celebración.

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Producer and host Myraida Chaves dies at 61

By PEDRO CORREA HENRY Twitter:@pete_r_correa Special to the Star

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ctress, news producer, television host, and Caguas Fine Arts Center Executive Director Myraida Chaves passed away Thursday evening due to complications to cancer.

Chaves, who was 61, passed away at the HIMA San Pablo Hospital in Caguas where she was hospitalized for several weeks convalescing from a diagnosis of lung cancer and other health complications.

Her daughter Myriana Chaves was next to her.

“From the stage of gratitude, I share with you that I am responsibly attending to a health situation, embraced by my family and close friends,” expressed Chaves through a press release issued on April 12. “Prayers and good vibes are always welcome. I thank you for understanding my desire to be allowed to handle this moment in privacy.”

“If I can assure you of anything, it is that I am a blessed woman,” she added.

Chaves had faced cervical cancer more than 30 years ago.

According to a biography released by the National Foundation for Popular Culture, Chaves, who was the daughter of José R. Chaves and comedienne Awilda Carbia, was known for her iron will, effervescent personality, and for always being interested in the world of arts and culture.

Since her early years of elementary education at the Perpetuo Socorro Academy, her proximity to the world of television was witnessed in an afternoon children’s program broadcast by Wapa Television.

Chaves was barely 10 years old when her character “Estrellita” was born from the hand of her mother, who played “Estrella Galaxia” in “La hora de la aventura.”

Those first steps were later complemented with her incursion in school plays and musicals of her Alma Mater where she shared with figures such as Josie de Guzman, who would later triumph on Broadway.

Chaves was also part of the play “Solo en la oscuridad”, directed by Myrna Casas for Cisne Productions.

In this theatrical production, an original by F. Knotts, the then-child shared the

stage with Josie Pérez, Orvil Miller, and Vicente Castro.

Keeping with her interest in the arts and performance scene, Chabes completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications with a major in Production and Journalism at Boston University in 1982.

She later came back to Puerto Rico, where she became well known as the host and co-producer for the television program “Juventud 83,” a project produced by Paquito Cordero, where she shared the stage with ex-Menudo members René Farrait and Fernando Salaberry.

Two years later, her on-screen work was complemented by a new talent named Braulio Castillo Jr. in a revamped program then called “Adelante Juventud.”

Later, Chaves jumped back on the local theater scene, where she was casted of two productions of the time.

The first one, “40 quilates”, where she acted in 1984 with her mother, Daniel Lugo, José Reymundí and Benito Mateo, under the direction of Pablo Cabrera.

A year later, she was part of the cast of the comedy “En paños menores,” again with her mother, and actors Maribella García, Braulio Castillo Jr., Franciaco “Paco” Pra-

do, José Félix Gómez and Víctor Arrillaga, among other talents.

Keeping up with the changing landscape in the professional world, in 1992, Chaves worked as a general interest reporter, as well as on special projects such as short reports for film produced by Sono Films and orientation programs for the State Elections Commission for the electoral campaign.

In 1993, she made the jump to Telemundo to work alongside journalist Jennifer Wolff in the program “Estudio 2”.

The short-lived on-air production was her prelude to her entry into “Telenoticias,” where she had her own segment of news reports and capsules.

Chaves’s work diversified in numerous areas, as she collaborated with public service announcements for the Alliance for a Puerto Rico Without Drugs and the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life, as participating in infomercials such as the “Autógrafos” series produced by Francisco Zamora for People’s Television, as well as following the script of journalist Wilda Rodríguez in the video presentation of “Nueva Ola Portoricensis”.

She also designed for Paquito Cordero Productions a series of capsules entitled “45 Years of History”. The latter concluded with

a successful special broadcast on Telemundo on July 4, 1999.

On the other, Chaves was well known for participating in radio programs “Today 940” at the Puerto Rico Corporation for Public Broadcasting (known as WIPR by its Federal Communications Commission call sign) radio station in 2002 and “With the Right Foot” with Braulio Castillo Jr. for Magic 97.3 in 2006.

Furthermore, her work for WIPR was not over, as she was a host for programs such “En tod@s” with actress Linnette Torres in 2002 “Contigo” with journalist Isamari Castrodad in 2005, and “Uno a uno” in 2014.

But one of the most important challenges she faced in her professional career was in March 2017, where she was appointed as Executive Director of the Angel O. Berríos Fine Arts Center in Caguas, where she had the challenge to bring it back to life amid Hurricanes Irma and María.

On social media, public figures like Gov. Pedro Pierluisi, San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero, actress Tita Guerrero, radio host Red Shadow and LGBTQ+ activist Pedro Julio Serrano wrote on their respective social media accounts mourning the death of Chaves.

18 herein described property, shall be held on MAY 14, 2021 AT UNITED STATES DISTRICT 10:00 AM and the minimum bid COURT FOR THE DISTRICT that will be accepted is the sum OF PUERTO RICO of $120,000.00. In the event MMG I PR CFL, LLC said first public auction does Plaintiff V. not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a MARIA ESTHER FERREIRA SÁNCHEZ; SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on MAY 21, 2021 FERNANDO RAÚL AT 10:00 AM and the minimum MONTIVEROS FERREIRA bid that will be accepted is two Defendants thirds of the minimum bid for Civil No.: 19-CV-01731. (DRD). the first public sale. lf said seCOLLECTION OF MONIES & cond auction does not result in FORECLOSURE OF MORT- the adjudication and sale of the GAGE. NOTICE OF SALE. property, a THIRD AUCTION To: MARÍA ESTHER will be held on MAY 28, 2021 AT FERREIRA SÁNCHEZ; 10:00 AM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is half the FERNANDO RAÚL bid for the first public MONTIVEROS FERREIRA: minimum sale. Upon confirmation of the WHEREAS: Judgment was ensale, an order shall be issued tered in favor of Plaintiff, secucancelling all junior liens. For red by the property described, further particulars, reference is in the amount of $108,051.65 made to the judgment entered of principal, plus interest, which by the Court in this case, which as of August 21, 2020, amoucan be examined in the Office nts to the sum of $18,016.99 of the Clerk of the United Staplus $2,451.04 in late chartes District Court. Other liens: ges and other fees, disbursePotential bidders are advised to ments, costs and agreed upon verify the extent of preferential attorney’s fees in the amount of liens with the holders thereof. lt $12,639.57. The records of the shall be understood that each case and of these proceedings bidder accepts as sufficient may be examined by interested the title and that prior and preparties at the Office of the Clerk ferential liens to the one being of the United States District foreclosed upon, including but Court, Federal Building, Charnot limited to any property tax, dón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto liens (express, tacit, implied, or Rico. WHEREAS: Pursuant to legal), shall continue in effect it the terms of the judgment and being understood further that the order of execution thereof, the successful bidder accepts the following properties will be them and is subrogated in the sold at public auction: URBAresponsibility for the same and NA: Solar marcado con el núthat the bid price shall not be mero Dieciocho (18) del bloque applied toward their cancellaP, situado en la Urbanización tion. WHEREAS: Said sale to Levittown, barrio Sabana Seca be made by the Special Masde Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, con ter designated by the Court is un área de TRESCIENTOS subject to confirmation by the DIEZ PUNTO CINCUENTA United States District Court for (310.50) METROS CUADRAthe District of Puerto Rico, but DOS. En lindes por el NORthe deed of conveyance and TE, en veintitrés metros con possession to the property may solar número diecisiete; por el be executed prior to the issuanSUR, en veintitrés metros con ce of said order as allowed by el solar número diecinueve; applicable law and regulations. por el ESTE, en trece punto In Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, this cincuenta metros con el solar 30 day of March 2021. Michel número siete; y por el OESA. Rachid Fournier, Special TE, en trece punto cincuenta Master. metros con la calle Luz Oeste, según plano calle cuatrocienLEGAL NOTICE tos cuarenta. Inscrito al folio UNITED STATES DISTRICT cuarenta y dos del tomo ciento COURT DISTRICT OF PUERdoce de Bayamón, finca siete TO RICO mil doscientos nueve. Registro REVERSE MORTGAGE de la Propiedad de Bayamón, FUNDING, LLC Sección Primera. WHEREAS: Plaintiff V. This property is subject to the

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following liens: Senior Liens: a) None. Junior Liens: a) Lis pendens dated July 3, 2019, recorded on October 21, 2019 in the Karibe system for Toa Baja, property #7,209, in the amount of $108,051.65, for case #19-01731. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE for the

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ESTATE OF RUFINO NÉSTOR VALE LÓPEZ COMPOSED OF MARICARMEN VALE VÁZQUEZ, NÉSTOR VALE VÁZQUEZ, ÁNGEL VALE VÁZQUEZ, JOHN DOE AND JANE DOE AS

A POSSIBLE MEMBERS WITH UNKNOWN NAME; THE ESTATE OF MYRNA VÁZQUEZ GARCÍA COMPOSED OF MARICARMEN VALE VÁZQUEZ, NÉSTOR VALE VÁZQUEZ, ÁNGEL VALE VÁZQUEZ, JOHN DOE AND JANE DOE AS POSSIBLE MEMBERS WITH UNKNOWN NAME; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Defendants Civil Action No.: 3:19-cv-01388.

NOTICE OF SALE.

To: THE ESTATE OF RUFINO NÉSTOR VALE LÓPEZ COMPOSED OF MARICARMEN VALE VÁZQUEZ, NÉSTOR VALE VÁZQUEZ, JOHN DOE AND JANE DOE; THE ESTATE OF MYRNA VÁZQUEZ GARCÍA COMPOSED MARICARMEN VALE VÁZQUEZ, NÉSTOR VALE VÁZQUEZ, ANGEL VALE VÁZQUEZ, JOHN DOE AND JANE DOE; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. GENERAL PUBLIC.

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $254,609.71, according to the affidavit of indebtment filed by the Plaintiff (Docket No. 29), plus the interest rate convened of 3.264% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendants, The Estate of Rufino Néstor Vale López composed of Maricarmen Vale Vázquez, Néstor Vale Vázquez, John Doe and Jane Doe and; The Estate of Myrna Vázquez García composed Maricarmen Vale Vázquez, Néstor Vale Vázquez, Angel Vale Vázquez, John Doe and Jane Doe, also owes and is ORDERED to pay Reverse Mortgage Funding, LLC all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% ($53,100.00) of the original principal amount to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested

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parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150 or 400 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.

WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the United States Marshal for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 200 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property. “URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 8 del Bloque A de la Urbanización Villas Del Pilar, localizado en el Barrio Monacillos de la Municipalidad de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de 403.00 metros cuadrados.

Colindando por el NORTE con el solar número 7 del bloque A, en una distancia de 26.00 metros; por el SUR, con el solar 9 del bloque A en una distancia de 26.00 metros; por el ESTE con los solares número 2 y 1 del bloque A, en una distancia de 15 metros 50 centímetros y por el OESTE con la calle Quebrada Arenas, en una distancia de 15.50 metros. Sobre el descrito solar enclava una casa de concreto para fines residenciales.” Property Number 7,082 recorded at page 171 of volume 233 of Monacillos Este y el Cinco, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section V of San Juan. The mortgage is recorded in the Registry of Property of Puerto Rico, at page 133 volume 314 of Monacillos Este y el cinco, 18th inscription. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $531,000.00, due on May 1st, 2087 pursuant to deed number 124, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on April 29, 2010, before notary María Isabel García Mantilla, and recorded, at page 133 of volume 314 of Monacillos, property number 7,082, 19th inscription. Other Liens: None. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any

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Friday, April 23, 2021 property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the 11TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:20 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $531,000.00.

In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the 18TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:20 AM., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $354,000.00, which is two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the 25TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:20 AM., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $265,500.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 16th day of March of 2021. PEDRO A. VÉLEZ-BAERGA, SPECIAL MASTER, specialmasterpr@ gmail.com, 787-672-8269.

Plaintiff V.

THE ESTATE OF ALTAGRACIA ROMANACCE PORRATADORIA A/K/A ALTAGRACIA ROMANACCE DE RODRIGUEZ COMPOSED OF MARIBEL RODRIGUEZ ROMANACCE, JOSÉ GABRIEL RODRIGUEZ ROMANACCE, GRACIELA MARGARITA RODRIGUEZ ROMANACCE AND CARLOS SERGIO RODRIGUEZ ROMANACCE, JANE DOE AND JOHN DOE; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Defendants Civil Action No.: 3:16-cv-3004ADC. COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: THE ESTATE OF ALTAGRACIA ROMANACCE PORRATADORIA A/K/A ALTAGRACIA ROMANACCE DE RODRIGUEZ COMPOSED OF MARIBEL RODRIGUEZ ROMANACCE, JOSÉ GABRIEL RODRIGUEZ ROMANACCE, GRACIELA MARGARITA RODRIGUEZ ROMANACCE AND CARLOS SERGIO RODRIGUEZ ROMANACCE, JANE DOE AND JOHN DOE; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. GENERAL PUBLIC.

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $91,149.92, plus the annual interest rate convened of 5.060% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendants, the Estate of Altagracia Romanacce Porratadoria a/k/a Altagracia Romanacce de Rodriguez composed of Maribel Rodriguez Romanacce, José Gabriel Rodriguez Romanacce, Graciela Margarita Rodriguez Romanacce and Carlos Sergio Rodriguez Romanacce, Jane LEGAL NOTICE Doe and John Doe to pay Live UNITED STATES DISTRICT Well Financial, Inc., all advanCOURT DISTRICT OF PUER- ces made under the mortgage TO RICO note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes LIVE WELL and inspections as well as 10% FINANCIAL, INC.

(18,750.00) of the original principal amount to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 400 or 150 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.

WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 400 or 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property “URBANA: Parcela de terreno localizada en la Urbanización San Demetrio del término municipal de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico e identificada en el Plano de Inscripción final de la Urbanización San Demetrio, con el número cuarenta (40) del Bloque “X” con un área superficial de trescientos cincuenta punto cero cero metros cuadrados (350.00 m/c). Colinda por el NORTE, en veinticinco punto cero cero (25.00m), con el solar número cuarenta y uno (41); por el SUR, en veinticinco punto cero cero metros (25.00m), con el solar número treinta y nueve (39); por el ESTE, en catorce punto cero cero (14.00), con la Calle “C”; y por el OESTE, en catorce punto cero cero metros (14.00m), con el solar número catorce (14). Enclava una casa de concreto reforzado y bloques de concreto para fines residenciales.” Property Number 6,007 recorded at page 136 of volume 125 of Vega Baja, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section IV of Bayamón. The mortgage is recorded at Karibe Volumen, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section IV of Bayamón, inscription 9th. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $187,500.00, due on January 31, 2087 pursuant to deed number 160, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on April 23, 2014, before notary María I. García Mantilla, and

recorded, at Karibe volume, property number 6007, 10th inscription. Other Liens: None.

Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the 11TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:25 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $187,500.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the 18TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:25 AM., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $125,000.00, which is twothirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale.

If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the 25TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT 10:25 AM. and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $93,750.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied.

WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 3rd

The San Juan Daily Star day of March of 2021. PEDRO A. VÉLEZ-BAERGA, SPECIAL MASTER, specialmasterpr@ gmail.com, 787-672-8269.

LEGAL NOT ICE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE, LLC. Plaintiff V.

THE ESTATE OF ANA ROSA JIMÉNEZ AYALA A/K/A ANA JIMÉNEZ AYALA A/K/A ANA JIMÉNEZ A/K/A ANA MARÍA JIMÉNEZ COMPOSED OF MAGALY NIEVES JIMENEZ, GISELLA NIEVES JIMENEZ, CARLOS M. NIEVES JIMENEZ, DAMARIS E. NIEVES JIMENEZ, AND SAMUEL NIEVES JIMENEZ; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Defendants Civil Action No.: 3:15-cv-2285PAD. COLLECTION OF MONEY AND MORTAGAGE FORECLOSURE COMPLAINT. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: THE ESTATE OF ANA ROSA JIMÉNEZ AYALA A/K/A ANA JIMÉNEZ AYALA A/K/A ANA JIMÉNEZ A/K/A ANA MARÍA JIMÉNEZ COMPOSED OF MAGALY NIEVES JIMENEZ, GISELLA NIEVES JIMENEZ, CARLOS M. NIEVES JIMENEZ, DAMARIS E. NIEVES JIMENEZ, AND SAMUEL NIEVES JIMENEZ; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. GENERAL PUBLIC.

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $87,989.00, plus the annual interest rate convened of 5.060% accumulated since March 7, 2016 per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendant The Estate of Ana Rosa Jiménez Ayala a/k/a Ana Jiménez Ayala a/k/a Ana Jiménez a/k/a Ana María Jiménez composed of Magaly Nieves Jimenez, Gisella Nieves Jimenez, Carlos M. Nieves Jimenez, Damaris E. Nieves Jimenez, and Samuel Nieves Jimenez also owes and is OR-

DERED to pay Finance of America Reverse, LLc, all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% ($18,450.00) of the original principal amount to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150 or 400 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.

WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 or 400 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property: “RUSTICA: Parcela número 2 en al Barrio Pugnado Afuera del término municipal de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 1,537.36 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la parcela o predio número 1 del plano de inscripción que se adjudicara a Dolores Jiménez Ayala; al Sur con el remanente de la finca que se adjudicara Agapito Jiménez Ayala; al ESTE, con más terrenos del remanente o finca principal; y al OESTE, con una franja de terreno de 5.50 metros de anche por 14.60 metros de largo, dedicada a uso público.” Property Number 12,754, recorded at page 250 of volume 222 of Vega Baja, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section IV of Bayamón. The mortgage at the Karibe volume of Vega Baja, property number 12,754, 6th inscription. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $184,500.00, due on February 22, 2080, pursuant to deed number 189, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on December 28, 2012, before notary Alfonso J. Gómez Roubert, and recorded, at Karibe volume of Vega Baja, property number 12,754, 7th inscription. Other Liens: None. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that

Friday, April 23, 2021 prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the 11TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:30 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $184,500.00.

In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the the 18TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:30 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $123,000.00, which is twothirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale.

If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the the 25TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:30 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $92,250.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied.

WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico.

In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 2nd day of March of 2021.

PEDRO A. VÉLEZ-BAERGA, SPECIAL MASTER, specialmasterpr@gmail.com, 787672-8269.

LONGORIA QUIÑONES A/K/A ZOE LONGORIA QUIÑONEZ A/K/A SOE LONGORIA QUIÑONES A/K/A SOE LONGORIA QUIÑONEZ A/K/A ZOE LONGORIA A/K/A SOE LONGORIA A/K/A ZOE LONGORIA VIUDA DE BEY A/K/A ZOE L. DE BEY A/K/A ZOE L. BEY A/K/A ZOE LONGOVIA QUIÑONES COMPOSED OF MARITZA BEY, MANUEL BEY LONGORIA AND EDALIZ BEY LONGORIA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Defendants Civil Action No.: 3:16-cv-3065SEC. COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: THE ESTATE OF ZOE LONGORIA QUIÑONES A/K/A ZOE LONGORIA QUIÑONEZ A/K/A SOE LONGORIA QUIÑONES A/K/A SOE LONGORIA QUIÑONEZ A/K/A ZOE LONGORIA A/K/A SOE LONGORIA A/K/A ZOE LONGORIA VIUDA DE BEY A/K/A ZOE L. DE BEY A/K/A ZOE L. BEY A/K/A ZOE LONGOVIA QUIÑONES COMPOSED OF MARITZA BEY, MANUEL BEY LONGORIA AND EDALIZ BEY LONGORIA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. GENERAL PUBLIC.

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $164,065.82, plus the annual interest rate convened of 5.060% per annum until the debt is paid in full.

The defendants, the Estate of Zoe Longoria Quiñones a/k/a Zoe Longoria Quiñonez a/k/a Soe Longoria Quiñones a/k/a Soe Longoria Quiñonez a/k/a Zoe Longoria a/k/a Soe Longoria a/k/a Zoe Longoria Viuda de Bey a/k/a Zoe L. de Bey a/k/a Zoe L. Bey a/k/a Zoe Longovia Quiñones composed of Maritza Bey, Manuel Bey Longoria and Edaliz Bey Longoria, also owes LEGAL NOTICE and is ORDERED to pay FinanUNITED STATES DISTRICT ce of America Reverse, LLC COURT DISTRICT OF PUERall advances made under the TO RICO mortgage note including but not FINANCE OF AMERICA limited to insurance premiums, REVERSE, LLC. taxes and inspections as well Plaintiff V. as 10% ($26,250.00) of the oriTHE ESTATE OF ZOE ginal principal amount to cover

costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150 or 400 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 or 400 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property “URBANA: Solar marcado con el número mil ciento sesenta y nueve (1169) en el bloque M guión treinta y siete (M-37) del plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Luis Muñoz Rivera radicado en el Barrio Frailes del término municipal de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de trescientos sesenta punto sesenta y tres (360.63) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en veinticuatro punto noventa y ocho (24.98) metros, con el solar número mil ciento setenta (1170) del bloque M guión treinta y siete (M-37); por el SUR, en veinticuatro punto noventa y ocho (24.98) metros, con el solar número mil ciento sesenta y ocho (1168) del bloque M guion treinta y siete (M-37); por el ESTE, en catorce punto ochenta y cinco (14.85) metros, con la calle denominada Street G; y por el OESTE, en trece punto noventa y dos (13.92) metros, con el solar número mil ciento sesenta y cuatro (1164) del bloque M guion treinta y siete (M-37) del mencionado plano. Según inscripción segunda (2da) se expresa que se ha edificado una residencia de hormigón reforzado de una sola planta que consta principalmente de tres (3) cuartos dormitorios, sala, comedor, cocina, cuarto de baño y balcón.”

Property Number 12,174 filed at page 168 of volume 172 of Guaynabo, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section of Guaynabo. The mortgage is recorded in the Registry of Property of Puerto Rico, Section of Guaynabo at page 31, volume 1,248 of Guaynabo. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal

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amount of $262,500.00, due on October 1st, 2078 pursuant to deed number 2, issued in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, on January 15, 2013, before notary Saideth Cristóbal Martínez, and recorded, at page 31 of volume 1,248 of Guaynabo, property number 12,174, 13th inscription. Other Liens: None.

Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the 11TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT 10:45 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $262,500.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the 18TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT 10:45 AM., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $175,000.00, 9:30am, which is two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the 25TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT 10:45 AM., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $131,250.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied.

WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk

of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 4th day of March of 2021. PEDRO A. VÉLEZ-BAERGA, SPECIAL MASTER, specialmasterpr@ gmail.com, 787-672-8269.

LEGAL NOTICE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE, LLC Plaintiff V.

GRECIA YOLANDA GUTIERREZ MARTINEZ A/K/A GRECIA Y. GUTIERREZ; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Defendants Civil Action No.: 17-cv-1869.

NOTICE OF SALE.

To: GRECIA YOLANDA GUTIERREZ MARTINEZ A/K/A GRECIA Y. GUTIERREZ; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. GENERAL PUBLIC.

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $150,654.79, plus the annual interest rate convened of 5.300% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendant Grecia Yolanda Gutierrez Martinez a/k/a Grecia Y. Gutierrez was also ordered to pay Finance of America Reverse, LLC, all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% (20,850.00) of the original principal amount to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150 or 400 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 or 400 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property. “URBANA: Solar veintidós A del Bloque 2C de la Urbanización Metrópolis, localizado en el Barrio Martín González del municipio de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de trescientos treinta

y seis metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar dieciocho A, en una longitud de catorce metros; por el SUR, con la Avenida C, en una longitud de catorce metros; por el ESTE, con el solar veintidós, en una longitud de veinticuatro metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar veintitrés, en una longitud de veinticuatro metros. Enclava una casa de concreto para vivienda.” Property Number 41,225, recorded at page 49 of volume 983 of Carolina, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section II of Carolina. The mortgage is recorded in the Registry of Property of Puerto Rico, Section of Carolina II at page 42, volume 1,479 of Carolina. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $208,500.00, due on July 28, 2084 pursuant to deed number 970, issued in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, on November 14, 2011, before notary María G. Chevere Mauriño, and recorded, at page 42 of volume 1,479 of Carolina, property number 41,225, 5th inscription. Other Liens: None.

Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the 11TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:55 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $208,500.00.

In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the 18TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:55 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $139,000.00, which is two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the 25TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:55 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $104,250.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything

20 but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied.

WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 4th day of March of 2021. PEDRO A. VÉLEZ-BAERGA, SPECIAL MASTER, specialmasterpr@ gmail.com, 787-672-8269.

LEGAL NOTICE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE, LLC. Plaintiff V.

THE ESTATE OF JUAN RAMÓN RIVERA REYES A/K/A JUAN R. RIVERA REYES COMPOSED OF DAMIÁN N. JIMENEZ, JANE DOE, JOHN DOE AND GLADYS MARGARITA JIMÉNEZ LÓPEZ A/K/A GLADYS JIMÉNEZ LÓPEZ; GLADYS MARGARITA JIMÉNEZ LÓPEZ A/K/A GLADYS JIMÉNEZ LÓPEZ; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Defendants Civil Action No.: 17-cv-1950.

MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE AND COLLECTION OF MONIES. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: THE ESTATE OF JUAN RAMÓN RIVERA REYES A/K/A JUAN R. RIVERA REYES COMPOSED OF DAMIÁN N. JIMENEZ, JANE DOE, JOHN DOE AND GLADYS MARGARITA JIMÉNEZ LÓPEZ A/K/A GLADYS JIMÉNEZ LÓPEZ; GLADYS MARGARITA JIMÉNEZ LÓPEZ A/K/A GLADYS JIMÉNEZ

LÓPEZ; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. GENERAL PUBLIC.

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $123,309.84, plus the annual interest rate convened of 5.060% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendants, the Estate of Juan Ramón Rivera Reyes a/k/a Juan R. Rivera Reyes composed of Damián N. Jimenez, Jane Doe, John Doe and Gladys Margarita Jiménez López a/k/a Gladys Jiménez López; Gladys Margarita Jiménez López a/k/a Gladys Jiménez López, also owes and is ORDERED to pay Finance of America Reverse, LLC all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% ($22,200.00) of the original principal amount to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150 or 400 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.

WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 or 400 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property.

“RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno con una cabida superficial de mil doscientos treinta y dos metros cuadrados con cincuenta y cinco centímetros (1,232.55 m.c.), en el BARRIO NARANJO de Comerío, Puerto Rico.

En lindes por el NORTE, con José A. Reyes; por el SUR, con el Río Arroyado, y la finca de la cual se segrega; por el ESTE, con la Carretera número 156; por el OESTE, con el Río Arroyata.” Property Number 6,275, recorded at page 177 of volume 88 of Comerío, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section Barranquitas. The mortgage is recorded in the Registry of Property of Puerto Rico page 191 of volume 152 of Comerío, Section of Barranquitas. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior

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Liens: None. Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $222,000.00, due on May 19th, 2100 pursuant to deed number 4, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on January 26, 2013, before notary Fernando E. Doval, and recorded, at page 191 of volume 152 of Comerío, property number 6,275, 5th inscription. Other Liens: None. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the 11TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT 11:00 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $222,000.00.

In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the 18TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT 11:00 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $148,000.00, 9:30am, which is two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the 25TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT 11:00 AM., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $111,000.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied.

WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further

particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 4th day of March of 2021. PEDRO A. VÉLEZ-BAERGA, SPECIAL MASTER, specialmasterpr@ gmail.com, 787-672-8269.

LEGAL NOTICE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE, LLC Plaintiff V.

THE ESTATE OF ANTONIA ROSA CASTRO A/K/A ANTONIA ROSA COMPOSED OF REECHYBELL BIGIO ROSA, RICHARD DOE AND JANE DOE; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Defendants Civil Action No.: 3:16-cv-2904PG. COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: THE ESTATE OF ANTONIA ROSA CASTRO A/K/A ANTONIA ROSA COMPOSED OF REECHYBELL BIGIO ROSA, RICHARD DOE AND JANE DOE; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. GENERAL PUBLIC.

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $199,500.00, plus the annual interest rate convened of 5.060% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendant, the Estate of Antonia Rosa Castro a/k/a Antonia Rosa composed of Reechybell Bigio Rosa, Richard Doe and Jane Doe was also ordered to pay Finance of America Reverse, LLC., all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% (19,950.00) of the original principal amount to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150 or 400 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.

WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution,

and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 or 400 Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property: “URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Parque Las Americas, situada en el Barrio Mamey de Gurabo, Puerto Rico, marcado con el numero veinticuatro (24) del Bloque “B” con un area superficial de doscientos sesenta y cuatro metros cuadrados (264.00 m.c.).

En lindes: Por el NORTE, en una distancia de once metros (11.00), con el solar numero once (11) del Bloque “C”; por el SUR, en una distancia de once metros (11.00), con la calle “B”; por el ESTE, en una distancia de veinte y cuatro metros (24.00), con el solar numero veintitres (23) del Bloque “B”; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de veinte y cuatro metros(24.00), con el solar numero veinticinco (25) del Bloque “B”.

En este solar enclava una casa de concreto para residencia de una familia.” Property 9,475 filed at page 259 of volume 250 of Gurabo, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section II of Caguas. The mortgage is recorded in the Registry of Property of Puerto Rico, Section II of Caguas, at Karibe volume, Property 9,475, inscription number nine (9). WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $199,500.00, due on June 13, 2085 pursuant to deed number 81, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on April 13, 2013, before notary Rosa E. Permuy Calderón, and recorded in the Registry of Property of Puerto Rico, Section II of Caguas, at Karibe volume, Property 9,475, 10th inscription. Other Liens: None. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their

cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the 14TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:30 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $199,500.00.

In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the 21ST DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:30 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $133,000.00, which is twothirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale.

If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the 28TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT: 10:30 AM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $99,750.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied.

WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 9th day of March of 2021. PEDRO A. VÉLEZ-BAERGA, SPECIAL MASTER, specialmasterpr@ gmail.com, 787-672-8269.

DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Defendants Civil Action No.: 3:16-cv-1551ADC. COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: THE ESTATE OF NEREIDA ACOSTA VELEZ A/K/A NEREIDA ACOSTAVELEZ A/K/A ACOSTA VELEZ NEREIDA A/K/A VELEZ NEREIDA ACOSTA A/K/A NEREIDA ACOSTA A/K/A VELEZ COMPOSED OF JANE DOE AND JOHN DOE; CENTRO DE RECUADACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. GENERAL PUBLIC.

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal sum of $85,710.24, according to the affidavit of indebtment filed by the Plaintiff (Docket No. 55), plus the annual interest rate convened of 4.99% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendants, the Estate of Nereida Acosta Velez a/k/a Nereida Acosta-Velez a/k/a Acosta Velez Nereida a/k/a Velez Nereida Acosta a/k/a Nereida Acosta a/k/a Velez composed of Jane Doe and John Doe, also owes and is ORDERED to pay Reverse Mortgage Funding, LLC all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% ($14,250.00) of the original principal amount to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150 or 400 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, OrLEGAL NOT ICE der of Execution, and the Writ UNITED STATES DISTRICT of Execution thereof, the unCOURT DISTRICT OF PUERdersigned Special Master was TO RICO ordered to sell at public auction REVERSE MORTGAGE for U.S. currency in cash or FUNDING, LLC certified check without appraiPlaintiff V. sement or right of redemption THE ESTATE OF NEREIDA to the highest bidder and at the ACOSTA VELEZ A/K/A office of the Clerk of the United District Court for the NEREIDA ACOSTA-VELEZ States District of Puerto Rico, Room A/K/A ACOSTA VELEZ 150 or 400 – Federal Office NEREIDA A/K/A VELEZ Building, 150 Carlos Chardón NEREIDA ACOSTA A/K/A Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, NEREIDA ACOSTA A/K/A to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the VELEZ COMPOSED following property. “URBANA: OF JANE DOE AND Solar sito en el Barrio MonaciJOHN DOE; CENTRO llos de Rio Piedras, marcado DE RECUADACIONES con el numero veinticinco “A”

(25-A) de la manzana “AK” de la Urbanizacion Caparra Terrance, con un área superficial de DOSCIENTOS SESENTA Y UNO PUNTO TREINTA Y SIETE METROS CUADRADOS (261.37 MC), mas o menos, el cual colinda por el NORTE, en diez punto quinientos cuarenta y cinco (10.545) metros, con el solar numero veintisiete “B” (27-B), de la manzana “AK”, por el SUR, en diez punto quinientos cuarenta y cinco (10.545) metros, con la calle ciento veintiuno (121) de la Urbanización, por el ESTE, en veinticinco punto cero cero (25.00) metros, con el solar veintiséis “B” (26-B) de la manzana AK y por el OESTE, en veinticinco punto cero cero (25.00) metros con la calle numero ciento tres (103) de la Urbanización. Enclava una casa de concreto armado con techo de azotea y pisos de losetas del país, de una sola planta que constituye una vivienda independiente, consistiento de tres dormitorios, sala, comedor, cocina, cuarto de baño y balcón. Property Number 21,734, filed at page 1 of volume 671 of Monacillos, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section III de San Juan. The mortgage is recorded in the 5th inscription of Monacillos, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section III of San Juan. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $142,500.00, due on July 17th, 2073 pursuant to deed number 276, issued in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on September 18, 2012, before notary Lizbet Avilés Vega, and recorded in the 6th inscription of Monacillos, Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section III of San Juan. Other Liens: None.

Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the 14TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT 10:35 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $142,500.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on the 21ST DAY

The San Juan Daily Star OF MAY OF 2021, AT 10:35 AM., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $95,000.00, which is two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the 28TH DAY OF MAY OF 2021, AT 10:35 AM.AND the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $71,250.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 15th day of March of 2021. PEDRO A. VÉLEZ-BAERGA, SPECIAL MASTER, specialmasterpr@ gmail.com, 787-672-8269.

plimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, quien pagará el importe de la venta en dinero efectivo, en cheque certificado o en cheque de gerente a la orden del alguacil suscribiente en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América el día 6 de mayo de 2021, a las 9:45 de la mañana, en mi oficina localizada en el Centro Judicial de Carolina, todo título, derecho o interés que corresponda a las partes codemandadas sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: “URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Ciudad Universitaria, situada en el Barrio Cuevas de Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, con un área de setecientos veinticinco metros cuadrados (725.00 m.c.).

En lindes por el NORTE, con servidumbre de Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico, distancia de veintiocho metros (28.00m) y novecientos treinta y tres metros (93.003m); por el SUR, con el solar número veintiséis (26) distancia de veinticinco metros (25.00m) y nueve punto cero cuatro metros (9.04m); por el ESTE, con la carretera estatal número ochocientos cuarenta y seis (846), distancia de veintiséis punto trescientos setenta y seis metros (26.376m); y por el OESTE, con servidumbre de paso y calle número veintisiete (27), distancia de veintiséis punto ochenta y cinco metros (26.85m).” La propiedad antes descrita consta inscrita al folio 46 del tomo 659 de Trujillo Alto, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección IV de San Juan, finca número 30,489. DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: Carretera LEGAL NOTICE #846 Bloque U #27 Urb. Ciudad ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Universitaria, Trujillo Alto, P.R. DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- 00976. AFECTA POR SU PRONAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CEDENCIA: SERVIDUMBRES CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CARO- a favor de la Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales de Puerto LINA SALA SUPERIOR. Rico; Autoridad de Acueductos PR RECOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT JV, LLC y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico; Municipio de Trujillo Alto y Demandante v.

Condiciones restrictivas sobre MI PEQUEÑO ANGELITO edificación. AFECTA POR SI: EN EL REY DE LOS HIPOTECA: En garantía de un NURSERIES, INC.; pagaré a favor de BANCO DE DESARROLLO ECONÓMICO CREATIVE TOOLS PARA PUERTO RICO, o a su ADVERTISING, INC. orden, por la suma de y NOEMI BETHZAIDA $365,000.00, con interés al priSANTANA RIVERA me rate, y vencedero a la preDemandados sentación, según consta escriCIVIL NÚM. FCD2011-0368. tura #44, otorgada en San SALA: 408. SOBRE: cobro de Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 18 de dinero Y EJECUCION DE HI- junio de 2004, ante el notario POTECA (VIA ORDINARIA). Eduardo Tamargo, inscrita al AVISO DE SUBASTA, ESTA- folio 33 del tomo 703 de Trujillo DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA Alto, finca #30,489, inscripción EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ES- 4ta de fecha 21 de junio de TADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA 2005. EMBARGO FEDERAL: EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO Por $20,359.60, contra MI PERICO. S.S. YO, SAMUEL GON- QUEÑO ANGELITO EN EL ZALEZ ISAAC, el Alguacil que REY DE LOS NURSERIES, suscribe, por la presente anun- S.S. #66-0630380, Notificación cia y hace constar, que en cum-

Friday, April 23, 2021 #915379913. Anotado al folio 81, asiento 2, Registro de Embargos Federales #9 del Registro De San Juan, Sección IV, el día 21 de febrero de 2013. EMBARGO FEDERAL: Por $11,193.07, contra MI PEQUEÑO ANGELITO EN EL REY DE LOS NURSERIES, S.S. #660630380, Notificación #141461515. Anotado al folio 240, asiento 5, Registro de Embargos Federales #3 del Registro De San Juan, Sección V, el día 27 de enero de 2015. EMBARGO FEDERAL: Por $11,193.07, contra MI PEQUEÑO ANGELITO EN EL REY DE LOS NURSERIES, S.S. #660630380, Notificación #141461215. Anotado al folio 61, asiento 2, Registro de Embargos Federales #13 del Registro De San Juan, Sección I, el día 2 de febrero de 2015.

EMBARGO FEDERAL: Por $11,193.07, contra MI PEQUEÑO ANGELITO EN EL REY DE LOS NURSERIES, S.S. #660630380, Notificación #141461015. Anotado al folio 199, asiento 3, Registro de Embargos Federales #7 del Registro De Humacao, el día 3 de febrero de 2015. EMBARGO FEDERAL: Por $11,193.07, contra MI PEQUEÑO ANGELITO EN EL REY DE LOS NURSERIES, S.S. #66-0630380, Notificación #141461615. Anotado al folio 28, asiento 3, Registro de Embargos Federales #5 del Registro De San Germán, el día 3 de febrero de 2015. EMBARGO FEDERAL: Por $11,193.07, contra MI PEQUEÑO ANGELITO EN EL REY DE LOS NURSERIES, S.S. #66-0630380, Notificación #141461415. Anotado al folio 171, asiento 4, Registro de Embargos Federales #7 del Registro De San Juan, Sección III, el día 3 de febrero de 2015. EMBARGO FEDERAL: Por $11,193.07, contra MI PEQUEÑO ANGELITO EN EL REY DE LOS NURSERIES, S.S. #660630380, Notificación #141461315. Anotado al folio 247, asiento 5, Registro de Embargos Federales #12 del Registro De San Juan, Sección II, el día 3 de febrero de 2015.

EMBARGO FEDERAL: Por $11,193.07, contra MI PEQUEÑO ANGELITO EN EL REY DE LOS NURSERIES, S.S. #660630380, Notificación #14460915. Anotado al folio 144, asiento 1, Registro de Embargos Federales #6 del Registro De Guaynabo, el día 10 de febrero de 2015. EMBARGO FEDERAL: Por $11,193.07, contra MI PEQUEÑO ANGELITO EN EL REY DE LOS NURSERIES, S.S. #66-0630380, Notificación #141460815. Anotado al folio 155, asiento 2, Registro de Embargos Federales #4 del Registro De Fajardo, el día 12 de marzo de 2015. El gravamen objeto de ejecución en este procedimiento es la que

surge de la Escritura de Hipoteca número 44, otorgada el 18 de junio de 2004 ante el Notario Público Eduardo Tamargo, inscripción 4ta, en la cual se establece como precio mínimo para la primera subasta la suma de $365,000.00. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, en las mismas oficinas de este Alguacil, el día 13 de mayo de 2021, a las 9:45 de la mañana. El precio mínimo para la segunda subasta serán dos terceras partes (2/3) del tipo mínimo de la primera subasta, o sea, $243,333.33. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en esa segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las mismas oficinas de este Alguacil, el día 20 de mayo de 2021, a las 9:45 de la mañana. El precio mínimo para la tercera subasta será la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo de la primera subasta, o sea, $182,500.00. Esta subasta se hará para satisfacer a la Parte Demandante, hasta donde alcance, el importe adeudado bajo la sentencia en este caso, que al 29 de agosto de 2019 ascienden la cantidad total de $212,642.73, más los intereses que se continúen acumulando hasta el saldo total y completo de la deuda, y una cantidad adicional de $30,805.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactados en el Pagaré Hipotecario que garantiza la deuda. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titularidad que da base a las mismas. La venta en pública subasta de la propiedad descrita anteriormente se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte dicha propiedad. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si lo hubiera, al crédito que da base a esta ejecución, continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a los titulares de créditos y/o cargas registrales posteriores, si alguno, que se celebrarán las SUBASTAS en las fechas, horas y sitio anteriormente señalados, y se les invita a que concurran a dichas subastas, si les conviniere, o se les invita a satisfacer, antes del remate, el importe del crédito, sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del Acreedor ejecutante, siempre y cuando reúnan los requisitos y cualificaciones de Ley para que se pueda efectuar tal subrogación. SE HACE CONSTAR que los autos y to-

dos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables, bajo el epígrafe de este caso. Y PARA SU PUBLICACIÓN en el tablón de edictos de este Tribunal y en dos (2) lugares públicos del Municipio dónde se celebrarán las subastas señaladas. Además, en un periódico de circulación general en dos ocasiones y mediante correo certificado a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada. EXPEDIDO el presente EDICTO DE SUBASTA en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 19 de marzo de 2021.

SAMUEL GONZALEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN SEBASTIÁN

ESTRELLA HOMES LLC. Parte Demandante V.

LUIS ARNALDO AYALA CORDERO, AIDALI DIAZ LORENZO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: MO2019CV00079.

(207). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de SAN SEBASTIAN, hago saber a la parte demandada, LUIS ARNALDO AYALA CORDERO, AIDALI DIAZ LORENZO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 12 de enero de 2021, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta por el precio mínimo de $54,000.00 y al mejor postor la propiedad de la dirección: #16 Calle 8, Rocha Community, Moca PR 00676 y que se describe como sigue: RUSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número 16 localizada en el plano de parcelación de la comunidad rural Rocha del Barrio Rocha del término municipal de Moca, con una cabida superficial de 481.23 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la Calle Número 8 de la comunidad; por el SUR, con terrenos de Herminio Lassalle; por el ESTE, con la parcela número 15 de la comunidad y por el OESTE, con la parcela número 17 de la

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comunidad. Sobre el antes descrito solar se ha edificado una estructura que se describe a continuación: Casa de vivienda: Construida de bloques de cemento y concreto armado, que tiene las siguientes facilidades: dos cuartos de dormitorios, sala, comedor y cocina corridos, un baño completo, balcón al frente de la casa. Todo el piso de la casa está forrado con cerámica italiana. El baño está en los dos cuartos. Las ventanas del frente de la casa y las del cuarto del frente son de cristal, las demás son de aluminio tipo miami. Tiene gabinetes de cocina hechos de madera y forrados con formica. Con un valor de $30,000.00, según la escritura número 138 otorgada en Aguadilla el 11 de octubre de 2004 ante el notario Edgardo Mesonero Hernández, inscrito al folio 195 del tomo 333 de Moca, inscripción 2ª. Finca 17388, inscrita al folio 195 del tomo 333 de Moca, Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta al siguiente gravamen: (i) HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $54,000.00 con intereses al 7% anual y vencimiento 1 de mayo de 2038.

Constituida por la Escritura 64 otorgada en Mayagüez el 28 de abril de 2008 ante el notario José García Noya, e inscrita al folio 195 vuelto del tomo 333 de Moca, finca 17388, inscripción 4ª. (ii) HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $1,900.00 sin intereses y vencimiento 28 de abril de 2013.

Constituida por la Escritura 65 otorgada en Mayagüez el 28 de abril de 2008 ante el notario José García Noya, e inscrita al folio 196 vuelto del tomo 333 de Moca, finca 17388, inscripción 5ª. Condiciones de la Hipoteca: Sujeta a las disposiciones del Programa gubernamental denominado “La Llave para tu Hogar”; no pudiendo ser transferida ni gravada por un término de 5 años, a partir de la concesión del subsidio, sin el previo consentimiento de la Autoridad so pena de la restitución del subsidio concedido. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dictada el 29 de octubre de 2019, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la cantidad de $46,250.30 de principal, más intereses acumulados, que continuarán acumulándose al 7% anual hasta el saldo total de la deuda, con un balance de escrow de $24.91, más $5,400.00 de

costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario, incluyendo primas de seguro de hipoteca, prima de seguro de siniestro y cargos por demora.

La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 6 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Sebastián Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma, la cantidad de $54,000.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 13 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $36,000.00 Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 20 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $27,000.00.

El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad

al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura.

El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En SAN SEBASTIAN, Puerto Rico, hoy 12 de abril de 2021. LUIS A. NIEVES RIVERA, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN SEBASTIÁN.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR

ORIENTAL BANK COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIOS DE THE MONEY HOUSE, INC. Demandante Vs.

LUIS MANUEL RIVERA CUEVAS, YOLANDA RIVERA RODRIGUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: MZ2020CV00034.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYA-

22 GÜEZ, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el 6 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: PR 108 KM 14.2 BARRIO ANONES LAS MARIAS, PR 00670 y que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parcela radicada en el barrio Anones del Municipio de Las Marías, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 4818.679 metros cuadrados.

Con lindes por el NORTE, en 39.837 metros, 6.203 metros, 12.621 metros, 17.00 metros, 14.151 metros, 27.142 metros y 54.847 metros, con terrenos de la Sucesión Pedro Torrellas; por el SUR, en 34.342 metros, 17.316 metros, 11.505 metros y en 44.179 metros, con la carretera 108; por el ESTE, en 30.876 metros, 27.679 metros, 25.151 metros (25.145 metros Según Escritura de Hipoteca) y en 19.618 metros, con el remanente de la finca principal y por el OESTE, en un punto común con terrenos de la Sucesión Pedro Torrellas y la carretera 311. Consta inscrita al Folio 45 del Tomo 163 de Las Marías, finca número 3399, Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián.

La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 45 del Tomo 163 de Las Marías, finca número 3399, Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián.

El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $82,506.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 13 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $55,004.00.

Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 20 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $41,253.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 35

otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 6 de julio de 2017, ante el Notario Vicente A. Sequeda Torres, y consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Las Marías, finca número 3,399, en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián, inscripción Décimo Tercera (13ra). Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $79,749.95 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de septiembre de 2019, más intereses al tipo pactado de 5.00% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $8,250.60. Además la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $8,250.60 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $8,250.60 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores desconocidos, no inscritos o presentados que sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipo-

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teca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de abril de 2021. CALIXTO RIVERA GHIGLIOTTY, ALGUACIL PLACA #283, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ, SALA SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

MARTÍN HERIBERTO MATA CARELA, ANA MERCEDES VÁSQUEZ T/C/C ANA MERCEDES VASQUES DE MATA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2019CV05941.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA “IN REM” (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMON,

SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el día 10 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA DE BAYAMON, SALA SUPERIOR, QUINTO PISO SALA 503 todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: KK-20 CALLE VIA PERIFERICA URB. JARDINES DE CAPARRA BAYAMON, PR 00959 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Jardines de Caparra, situada en el Barrio Juan Sánchez de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, que se describe como sigue: Solar número veinte de la Manzana KK, con un área de cuatrocientos cuarenta y tres metros cuadrados con cuatro mil ciento uno diez milésimas de metro, en lindes por el NORTE, con el Solar veintiuno y con Parque, distancias de veinticuatro metros y trece metros y veinticinco centímetros; por el SUR, con el Solar diecinueve, distancia de treinta y seis metros y treinta y cinco centímetros; por el ESTE, con paseo público y con parque, distancias de cinco metros y setenta centímetros y seis metros y cuarenta centímetros; y por el OESTE, con Via Periférica, distancia de diecisiete metros y treinta y ocho centímetros. Contiene una casa de concreto reforzado, diseñada para una familia. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 9 del Tomo 657 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 30,339, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Primera. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $134,055.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 17 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $89,370.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 24 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $67,027.50.

La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 372 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 20 de diciembre de 2012, ante el Notario Luis Valle Irizarry, y consta inscrita al Folio 206 del Tomo 1,921 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 30,339, inscripción décima (10ma). Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido contra la parte demandada ascendente a la suma de $129,043.63 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de enero de 2015, más intereses al tipo pactado de 3.50% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación.

Además, la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $13,405.50.

Además, la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $13,405.50 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $13,405.50 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMON, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores conocidos y desconocidos que tengan inscritos, no inscritos, presentados y/o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmi-

sibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma en el Tribunal en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de abril de 2021. EDGARDO E. VARGAS, ALGUACIL PLACA #193, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN, SALA SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

MILDRED DIAZ SANTIAGO POR SÍ Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JUAN HERIBERTO RAMÍREZ RIVERA; LA SUCESIÓN DE JUAN HERIBERTO RAMÍREZ RIVERA COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2019CV02142.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONS-

TAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE VEGA BAJA, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el 10 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA DE BAYAMON, SALA SUPERIOR, QUINTO PISO SALA 503, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: PARCELA 228 (30) CALLE GERANIO COMUNIDAD OJO DE AGUA BARRIO ALGARROBO VEGA BAJA, PR 00693 y que se describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número 228 en el Plano de Parcelación de la comunidad rural Ojo de Agua del Barrio Algarrobo del término municipal de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de cero cuerdas con mil doscientos cuarenta y cinco diezmilésimas de otra, equivalente a 489.25 metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el NORTE, con Calle de la comunidad; por el SUR, con parcela número 229 de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con parcela número 230 de la comunidad; y por el OESTE, con parcela número 226 de la comunidad. Enclava una casa para fines residenciales. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 31 del Tomo 203 de Vega Baja, finca número 11,537, Folio 31 del Tomo 203 de Vega Baja. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $69,426.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 17 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $46,284.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 24 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $34,713.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe

fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 294 otorgada en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el día 19 de diciembre de 2001, ante el Notario José E. De La Cruz Feliciano y consta inscrita al Folio 213 del Tomo 389 de Vega Baja, finca número 11,537, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Cuarta, inscripción Cuarta (4ta). Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $54,675.60 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de octubre de 2014, más intereses al tipo pactado de 6.50% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, Mildred Díaz Santiago y La Sucesión de Juan Heriberto Ramírez Rivera adeudan a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $6,942.00.

Además, Mildred Díaz Santiago y La Sucesión de Juan Heriberto Ramírez Rivera se comprometieron a pagar una suma equivalente a $6,942.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $6,942.00 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE VEGA BAJA, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate.

La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores desconocidos, no inscritos o presentados que sus acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que

The San Juan Daily Star los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de abril de 2021. EDGARDO E. VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL PLACA #193, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN, SALA SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

JUDIT CRUZ

Demandado Civil Núm.: BY2019CV02518.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE VEGA BAJA, SALA SUPERIOR, , en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el día 10 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en

el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA DE BAYAMON, SALA SUPERIOR, QUINTO PISO SALA 503 todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: LOT 478 PR 160 KM 1.4 LA ROSETA SECT. ALMIRANTE NORTE W, VEGA BAJA, PR 00693 y que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número 478 en el Plano de Parcelación de la comunidad Rural Almirantito del Barrio Almirante Norte del término municipal de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de mil quinientos punto diecinueve metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la parcela número 477 de la comunidad; por SUR, con las parcelas número 474 y 473 de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con la calle de la comunidad; y por el OESTE, con las parcelas número 476 y 474 de la comunidad.

La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 291 del Tomo 373 de Vega Baja, finca número 27,264, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Cuarta. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $124,858.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 17 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $83,238.66. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 24 DE MAYO DE 2021, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $62,429.00.

La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 75 otorgada en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el día 27 de mayo de 2005, ante el Notario Luis Oscar Cintrón Fonalledas y consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Vega Baja, finca número 27,264, inscripción cuarta (4ta). Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido contra la parte demandada ascendente a la suma de $120,266.24 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de septiembre de 2017,

Friday, April 23, 2021 más intereses al tipo pactado de 4.5% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $12,485.80.

Además, la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $12,485.80 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $12,485.80 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE VEGA BAJA, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate.

La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores conocidos y desconocidos que tengan inscritos, no inscritos, presentados y/o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La

propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial.

Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma en el Tribunal en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de abril de 2021. EDGARDO E. VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN, SALA SUPERIOR.

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JOSÉ RAFAEL MACHUCA MACHÍN, SU ESPOSA MIRTA MORALES RIVERA T/C/C MYRTA MORALES RIVERA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2019CV12215.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 13 de marzo de 2020 y según Orden y Mandamiento del 23 de marzo de 2021 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Residential apartment number four hundred one of an irregular shape of reinforced concrete, concrete blocks and a gypsum board, located on the fourth le-

vel of Condominium La Rosaleda, San Ignacio Avenue and state road eight hundred forty one, Monacillos Ward of the Municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico, with a total approximate private area of eight hundred eighty one square feet and thirty six hundredths of a square feet, equivalent to eighty one square meters and eighty eight hundredths of a square meter.

It consists of an open terrace, living room, dining room, kitchen, two bathrooms, one master bedroom, various closets and a walk-in-closet. It bounds by the EAST, in a irregular line in several distances on thirty four feet equivalent to ten meters and thirty six hundredths of a meter with western wall of western stairway of the building, the ventilation shaft corridor leading to elevators and with western wall of apartment four hundred three; by the WEST, in an irregular line, in several distances on thirty four feet equivalent to ten meters and thirty six hundredths of a meter with open space above planting area facing the swimming pool facilities, the garbage station and San Ignacio Street; by the NORTH, in an irregular line in several distances on thirty two feet one inch equivalent to nine meters and seventy seven hundredths of a meter with open space above planting area facing the boundary on the adjacent property; by the SOUTH, on an irregular line in several distance on thirty two feet one inch equivalent to nine meters and seventy seven hundredths of a meter with open space above the planting area facing the principal entrance to the parking area. Con un porciento de participación sobre los elementos comunes generales de uno punto quince por ciento y en los elementos comunes limitados de catorce punto sesenta por ciento. FINCA NÚMERO: 22,839, inscrita al folio 162 del tomo 738 de Monacillos, sección III de San Juan. Nota aclaratoria: En el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección III, la descripción registral consta tal y como fue transcrita anteriormente. En la Escritura número 408, otorgada el 29 de junio de 2007 y en la Escritura número 100, otorgada el 23 de febrero de 2012 consta lo siguiente; • By the EAST, in an irregular line in several distances on thirty-four feet equivalent to ten meters and thirtyeight meter. • By the WEST, in an irregular line, in several distances on thirty-four feet equivalent to ten meters and thirty-eight meter. Dirección Física: BARRIO MONACILLOS COND. LA ROSALEDA (t/c/c Cond. Vista Verde) APT. 401, AVE. SAN IGNACIO, CARR. 141 RÍO PIEDRAS PR 00921.

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habrá de celebrarse el día 20 de mayo de 2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de San Juan. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso, será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $134,400.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 27 de mayo de 2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $89,600.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una tercera subasta en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 7 de junio de 2021, a las 9:30 de la mañana, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $67,200.00. Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor.

Con el importe de esta venta se habrá de satisfacer el balance de la sentencia dictada en este caso el cual consiste en el pago de $115,918.82 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 4.00% anual más recargos hasta su pago, más el pago de lo pactado en la sentencia para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del demandado/ deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Por la presente también se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de

toda carga y gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la Primera, Segunda y Tercera Subasta, si eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 13 de abril de 2021.

EDWIN E. LOPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR. PEDRO HIEYE GONZALEZ, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN. ***

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contra. Copia de la demanda, emplazamientos y del presente edicto le ha sido enviado por correo a la ultima dirección conocida. Pueden ustedes obtener mayor información sobre el asunto revisando los autos en el Tribunal. Se le apercibe que tiene usted un término de :treinta (30) días para radicar contestación a dicha demanda de cobro de dinero y/o cualquier escrito que estime usted conveniente a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la SecretarIa del Tribuna1 de epígrafe, pero que de no radicarse escrito alguno ante el Tribunal dentro de dicho término el Tribunal procederá a ventilar el procedimiento sin más citarle ni oIrle. Dada en Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, hoy 30 de marzo de 2021. Lic. Norma Santana Irizarry, Sec Regional. f/Maria M Avilés Bonilla, Sec Auxiliar.

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CULTIVOS DEL CAMPO, INC.; RIGOBERTO DE PABLO CORTES JANE DOE Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR ESTOS; BERNARDO ÁLVAREZ RIOS, GISELA GOMEZ LUGO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR ESTOS

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM: UT2021CV00027.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICParte Demandada CIVIL NUN. CB2020CV00413. TO/GOBIERNO DE PUERTO SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO; RICO. A: GISELA GOMÉZ INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO. EDICTO. LUGO Y LA SOCIEDAD

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A: JENNIFER CAMACHO LEGAL DE GANACIALES MONTALVO, SU ESPOSO COMPUESTA POR ÉSTA JOSÉ VARGAS Y LA Y BERNARDO ÁLVAREZ SOCIEDAD LEGAL RÍOS; PO Box 172 DE GANANCIALES Ángeles, PR 00611 COMPUESTA POR RIGOBERTO AMBOS DE PABLO CORTÉS Se le apercibe que la parte 5687 Purdy Lane West demandante por mediación Palm Beach, FL 33415de la Lcda. Maria C. Mayoral

POR LA PRESENTE se le emMaldonado, P.O. Box 277, : plaza, se le notifica que una Mayaguez, Puerto Rico 00681, demanda ha sido presentada Tel. 787-265-0334, ha radicaen su contra y se le requiere do la acción de epígrafe en su

24 para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, radicando el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notificando con copia de la misma a la parte demandante a la dirección antes indicada. Representa a la parte demandante la abogada cuyo nombre y dirección se consigna de inmediato: LCDA. GRACE M. FIGUEROA IRIZARRY RUA Núm. 14712 PO Box 193813 San Juan, PR 00919-3813 TEL: (787)756-9063 / (787)-294-9063 gfigueroa@esqlegalpr.com gracefigueroalawoffice@gmail.com Se le apercibe que, de no hacerlo, se podrá dictar Sentencia en rebeldía concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin citarle ni oírle más.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y EL SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL, en Utuado, Puerto Rico, hoy día 25 de marzo de 2021. DIANE ALVAREZ VILLANUEVA, Secretaria Regional. BRENDA DE JESUS VELEZ, Sec Auxiliar del Tribunal I.

el original de la contestación ante la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Mayagüez, y notificar copia de la contestación de ésta a la parte demandada Juan Jorge Martínez Rodríguez; por conducto de su abogado, Lcdo.

Luis Roberto Santos Montalvo, a su dirección: P. O. Box 1809, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 006811809, Teléfono 787-833-5466, dentro de los próximos TREINTA (30) días a partir de la publicación de este Emplazamiento por Edicto, que será publicado UNA (1) sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general en la Isla de Puerto Rico; se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. En Mayagüez, 1 RO de MARZO de 2021. Lcda. Norma G. Santana lrizarry, Secretaria Regional, Centro Judicial de Mayagüez.

F/ ZAHIRA RODRIGUEZ SOLER, Secretaria Auxiliar.

sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 16 de abril de 2021. En SALINAS, Puerto Rico, el 16 de abril de 2021. MARISOL ROSADO RODRIGUEZ, Secretaria. f/BRENDA L. RAMOS POMALES, Sec Auxiliar.

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Parte Demandada CIVIL NUM: MZ2020CV00840.

SOBRE: CANCELACION DE PAGARE, ACCIÓN CIVIL. EDICTO.

Sobre: CANCELACION O RESTITUCION DE PAGARE EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: ASSOCIATES A: Federal Deposit INTERNATIONAL lnsurance Corp., HOLDINGS WesternBank Puerto Rico CORPORATION; t/c/c Western Federal RICHARD ROE Y Saving Bank, John Doe JOHN DOE COMO Bank, Richard Doe y Juan POSIBLES TENEDORES del Pueblo.

DESCONOCIDOS Por la presente se emplaza a Federal Deposit lnsurance Corp., WesternBank Puerto Rico tic/e Western Federal Saving Bank, John Doe Bank, Richard Doe y Juan del Pueblo y se le notifica que se ha presentado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal la Demanda por Cancelación de Pagaré en el caso de epigrafe contra su persona. Se le apercibe y advierte a usted, que de no contestar la Demanda radicando

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 16 de abril de 2021, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una

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mino de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponer lo que a su derecho convenga, en el presente caso.

Se les apercibe y notifica que si no contestan la demanda radicada en su contra, radicando el original de la misma y enviando copia de su contestación a la parte demandante, Leda . Charline Michelle Jiménez Echevarría, Dirección: P.ü. Box 367308, San Juan, P.R. 009367308; Teléfono: 787-758-6550, correo electrónico: jimenez@ glslegalservices.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, se les anotará la rebeldía en su contra y se dictará sentencia en su contra, conforme se solicita en la Demanda, sin más citárseles, ni oírseles. Se ordena a los herederos del causante a saber: NELSON V ÁZQUEZ; FULANO DE TAL Y SUT ANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS, a que dentro del mismo término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación, ACEITEN o REPUDIEN la participación que le corresponda en la herencia del causante ADÁN V ÁZQUEZ MARCANO T/C/C ADAM V ÁZQUEZ MARCANO. Se les apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que de no expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, se tendrá por aceptada. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 16 de abril de 2021. GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, Secretaria Regional. Por: LUZ ENID FERNANDEZ DEL VALLE, Sec Servicios a Sala.

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PARTES DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2019CV11452.

AMNERIS MARIE SALA: 604. SOBRE: COBRO MENDEZ MARTINEZ DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN Demandante Vs. DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESJOHN SEBASTIAN TADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA MORALES RODRIGUEZ EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. Demandado UU. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA- CASO NÚM. BY2021RF00549.

DO DE P.R. SS. SALA: 4005. SOBRE: CUSTOA: NELSON V ÁZQUEZ; DIA y PATRIA POTESTAD. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉPOSIBLES HEREDEROS RICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL DE NOMBRES ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DESCONOCIDOS, DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

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Quedan emplazados y notificados de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca en su contra. Se les notifica para que comparezcan ante el Tribunal dentro del tér-

A: JOHN SEBASTIAN MORALES RODRIGUEZ 5830 Whispoorwill Ln., Port St., Lucie, FL 34987 o sea, la parte arriba mencionada.

POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes

a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal, notificando copia de la misma al (a la) abogada de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal.

LCDA. MARGARITA GÓMEZ VÁZQUEZ Número del Tribunal Supremo: 8,806 URB. FOREST VIEW 1-2 BAJOS CALLE ESPAÑA BAYAMÓN, P.R. 00956 TEL. (787) 740-7190 EMAIL: licmargaritagomez@gmail.com Se le apercibe que si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. NOTIFIQUESE: Dada en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 8 de abril de 2021. ETHEL G RUIZ FERNANDEZ, JUEZ SUPERIOR. LCDA. LAURA L SANTA SÁNCHEZ, Sec Regional.

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J R MORTGAGE HOME INC. Demandante v.

BANCO Y AGENCIA DE FINANCIAMIENTO DE LA VIVIENDA DE PUERTO RICO; POPULAR MORTGAGE, INC.; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS

los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 19 de abril de 2021. En JUANA DIAZ, Puerto Rico, el 19 de abril de 2021. LUZ MAYRA CARABALLO GARCIA, Secretaria. f/DORIS A RODRIGUEZ COLON, Sec Auxiliar.

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LEGAL NOTICE Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior Municipal de CAGUAS.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO DEMANDANTE Vs.

usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia o Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 19 de abril de 2021. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, 19 de abril de 2021. CARMEN ANA PEREIRA ORTIZ, Secretaria Regional. f:/ CARMEN R. DÍAZ CÁCERES, Secretario(a) de Servicios a Sala.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante VS.

A SUCESIÓN DE LAS SUCESIONES DE CARMEN MARÍA DIONISIO SALAMO FONT LUNA RODRÍGUEZ FIRST AMERICAN TITLE Y CLAUDINA LAURA COMPUESTA POR INSURANCE COMPANY DE JESÚS DÍAZ T/C/C ÁNGEL HUMBERTO Demandante v.

CLAUDINA DE JESUS NÚÑEZ LUNA, WILLIAM DORAL MORTGAGE LLC, COMPUESTAS POR NÚÑEZ LUNA, CARMEN antes conocida como FULANO Y FULANA TEREZA NUÑEZ LUNA DORAL MORTGAGE DE TAL; MENGANO Y Y ÁNGEL LUIS NÚÑEZ CORPORATION; MENGANA DE TAL COMO LUNA; JOHN DOE Y JANE FEDERAL DEPOSIT POSIBLES MIEMBROS DOE COMO HEREDEROS INSURANCE DESCONOCIDOS DE DE NOMBRE CORPORATION; AMBAS SUCESIONES DESCONOCIDO; R&G MORTGAGE Y CENTRO DE SECRETARIO DE CORPORATION, RECAUDACION DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO hoy, FEDERAL INGRESOS MUNICIPALES RICO Y C.R.I.M. DEPOSIT INSURANCE (CRIM) Demandados CORPORATION (FDIC); DEMANDADOS SCOTIABANK PUERTO CIVIL NUM. CG2019CV04450. CIVIL NUM.: SJ2019CV07754.

SALA: 506. SOBRE: COBRO RICO, hoy ORIENTAL SALA 703.SOBRE: COBRO DE DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE BANK; ORIENTAL BANK; DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS HIPOTECA (VIA ORDINARIA). UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL FULANO DE TAL Y NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN- PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESMENGANO MÁS CUAL CIA POR EDICTO.

Demandado(a) Civil Núm. JD2020CV00242.

Sobre: CANCELACION DE PAGARE EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

Demandado(a) Civil Núm. SJ2021CV00531 (503). Sobre: CANCELACION DE PAGARE HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 13 de abril de 2021, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 20 de abril de 2021, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica-

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE P/C LCDA. MARJALIISA COLON VILLANUEVA mcolon@wwclaw.com para ser publicada por edictos

ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 20 de abril de 2021. En SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, el 20 de abril de 2021. GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, Secretaria Regional. f/ROSIMAR LOPEZ ROBLES ALICEA, Sec Auxiliar del Tribunal I.

A: FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO MAS CUAL

A: Fulano y Fulana de Tal; Mengano y Mengana de Tal como posibles Miembros Desconocidos de las Sucesiones de Dionisio Sálamo Font y Claudina Laura De Jesús Díaz t/c/c Claudina De Jesús

EL (LA) SECRETARIO(A) le notifica a usted que el día 25 de marzo de 2021, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia o Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representado

TADOS UNIDOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico, hago saber a la parte demandada, al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; y a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o

The San Juan Daily Star satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante: Aviso de Demanda de fecha 1 de agosto de 2019, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, en el caso civil número SJ2019CV07754, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, contra Sucesión de Carmen María Luna Rodríguez, compuesta por Ángel Humberto Núñez Luna; Carmen Tereza Núñez Luna; Ángel Luis Núñez Luna; John Doe y Jon Doe como herederos de nombre desconocidos, Secretario de Hacienda y CRIM, por la suma de $100,088.29, anotado el día 15 de agosto de 2019, al tomo Karibe de Monacillos, finca número 15,136, anotación A. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 31 de marzo de 2021, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Santiago Iglesias Pantin, situada en el barrio Gobernador Piñero de Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscripción con la urbanización con el #28 de la manzana J con un área superficial de 339.24 METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar #29, distancia de 24.00 metros, por el SUR, con el solar #27, distancia de 24.00 metros, por el ESTE, con los solares #7 y #8, distancia de 10.60 metros y por el OESTE, con la calle #6, distancia de 17.67 metros. Inscrita la hipoteca al folio móvil del tomo 26 de Monacillos, finca número 15,136, inscripción 8va y última, del Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección III. La propiedad ubica en: Urb. Santiago Iglesias 1401 Calle Gautier San Juan, PR 00921. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, el día 28 de febrero de 2020 y notificada el 5 de marzo de 2020, publicada en periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico el 12 de marzo de 2020, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $100,088.29 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 6.95% desde el 1ro de diciembre de 2017; cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $14,000.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien

deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 24 DE MAYO DE 2021 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

El precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es por la cantidad de $140,000.000. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 1 DE JUNIO DE 2021 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $93,333.33, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el 8 DE JUNIO DE 2021 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $70,000.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Artículo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas

Friday, April 23, 2021 publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado pueden concurrir a la subasta si les convienen o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante.

Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes.

Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 20 de abril de 2021. EDWIN E. LOPEZ MULERO, Alguacil Auxiliar, División de Subastas, Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan.

notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que 13 de abril de 2021 , este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 15 de abril de 2021. En FAJARDO , Puerto Rico, el 15 de abril de 2021. WANDA I. SEGUI REYES, SEC. REGIONAL. f/LINDA I. MEDINA MEDINA, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

BANCO COOPERATIVO DE PUERTO RICO Demandante vs.

CHARLIE CRUZ LUGO y su esposa RUTHNOEMI MONGE SANTANA y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuestapor ambos

Demandados CIVIL NÚM. FBCI201501754 Estado Libre Asociado de (404). SOBRE: Ejecución de Puerto Rico TRIBUNAL GENE- Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria IN RAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de REM. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Al: Público en General Primera Instancia Sala Superior de LUQUILLO. A: CHARLIE CRUZ LUGO

LEGAL NOTICE

FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO

y su esposa RUTH NOEMI MONGE SANTANA y la Demandante V. Sociedad Legal de Bienes VILMA Gananciales compuesta MARRERO BURGOS por ambos; METRO Demandado(a) ISLAND MORTGAGE, Civil: LU2018CV00220. Sobre: INC., por tener Hipoteca COBRO DE DINERO Y EJEen Garantía de Pagaré a CUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA. NOTIFI- su favor por la suma de CACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR $22,500.00; ESTADOS EDICTO. UNIDOS DE AMERICA, A; VILMA por tener Embargos MARRERO BURGOS anotados a su favor por URB BRISAS DEL MAR las sumas de $45,515.24; CALLE 2 B-5, LUQUILLO $2,190.00;$21,019.91; PR 00773 $25,683.88; $957.78; 1533 ELMWOOD $2,287.72 Y $12,685.91.

AVENUE, KISSIMMEE Yo, MANUEL VILLAFAÑE 34744-4010 BLANCO, Alguacil de este Tri(Nombre de las partes a las que se le

bunal, a la parte demandada

y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 14 de mayo de 2021 a las 3:15 de la tarde en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Carolina durante horas laborables.

Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una segunda subasta para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 21 de mayo de 2021, a las 3:15 de la tarde; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 28 de mayo de 2021, a las 3:15 de la tarde en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: RUSTICA: Solar marcado en el plano de inscripción con el número Cuatro (4) sito en el BARRIO CAMPO RICO de Canóvanas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de DIECINUEVE MIL QUINIENTOS TREINTA PUNTO OCHOCIENTOS NOVENTA Y CUATRO (19,530.894) METROS CUADRADOS, equivalentes a CUATRO PUNTO NUEVE MIL SEISCIENTOS NOVENTA Y DOS (4.9692) CUERDAS. En lindes por el NORTE, con camino municipal; por el SUR, con terrenos de Pepito Pagán y solar número Uno (1) del plano de inscripción; por el ESTE, con terrenos de Artemio Rivera; y por el OESTE, con solar número Uno (1) marcado en el plano de inscripción. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 5 del tomo 443 de Canóvanas, Registro de la Popiedad de Carolina, Sección Tercera, finca número 15,437, inscripción tercera. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Solar Número 4, Rd. 957, Km. 0.5, Barrio Campo Rico, Canóvanas, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $179,201.12 de principal, intereses al 7% anual, desde el día 1ro. de octubre de 2014, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $22,400.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado y recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mí-

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nima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será la suma de $224,000.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $149,333.33 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $112,000.00.

La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad hipotecada a ser vendida en pública subasta se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes posteriores: Hipoteca en Garantía de Pagaré a favor de Metro Island Mortgage, Inc., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $22,500.00, con intereses al 9.950% anual, vencedero el día 1ro. de noviembre de 2008, según consta de la Escritura Número 134, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 22 de octubre de 2003, ante el Notario Público Jorge A. Laborde Corretjer; inscrita al tomo Karibe de Canóvanas, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Tercera, finca 15,437, inscripción 4ta. Embargo Federal , por la suma de $45,515.24 contra Charlie Cruz Lugo, Seguro Social número xxxxx-5887, Notificación número 237052916, Certificación del 4 de noviembre de 2016, anotado el día 12 de julio de 2016, al Asiento 2016-010394-FED. Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Tercera. Embargo Federal , por la suma de $2,190.00 contra Charlie Cruz Lugo, Seguro Social número xxx-xx-5887, Notificación número 239952116, Certificación del 30 de noviembre de 2016, anotado el día 4 de enero de 2017, al Asiento 2016-010917FED. Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Tercera. Embargo Federal, por la suma de $21,019.91 contra R. Monge Santana, Seguro Social número xxx-xx-2640, Notificación número 195735916Certificación del día 22 de enero de 2016,anotado el día 17 de febrero de 2016, al Asiento 2016-000789-FED. Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Tercera. Embargo Federal por la suma de $25,683.88 contra R. Monge Santana, Seguro Social número xxx-xx-2640,Notificación número 228510016, Certifica-

ción del día 7 de septiembre de 2016, anotado el día 3 de octubre de 2016, al Asiento 2016008906-FED. Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Seción Tercera. Embargo Federal, por la suma de $957.78 contra R. Monge Santana, Seguro Social número xxx-xx- 5887, Notificación número 239952316, Certificación del día 30 de noviembre de 2016,anotado el día 28 de diciembre de 2016, al Asiento 2016-010918-FED. Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Tercera. Embargo Federal, por la suma de $2,287.72 contra Ruth Monge Santana, Seguro Social número xxx-xx- 2640, Notificación número 252956217, Certificación del día 15 de marzo de 2017,presentada el día 10 de abril de 2017, al Asiento 2017002746-FED. Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Tercera. Embargo Federal, por la suma de $12,685.91 contra Ruth Monge Santana, Seguro Social número xxxxx- 5041, Notificación número 331212118, Certificación del día 31 de octubre de 2018,presentado y anotado, el día 12 de diciembre de 2018, al Asiento 2018-011044-FED. Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Tercera. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteirores. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 16 de abril de 2021. MANUEL VILLAFAÑE BLANCO, ALGUACIL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA MUNICIPAL DE CABO ROJO.

COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE CABO ROJO Parte Demandante vs

CHRISTOPHER OJEDA OJEDA, ET ALS

Parte Demandada CIVIL NÚM. ICCI201600451.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO.

A: CHRISTOPHER OJEDA OJEDA, SU ESPOSA LARALIZZA MARTíNEZ CAMACHO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Se le apercibe que la parte demandante por mediación del Lcdo. Rafael Fabre Colón, P.O. Box 277, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico Tel. 787-265-03 34, ha radicado la acción de epígrafe en su contra. Copia de la demanda, emplazamiento y del pre-

sente edicto le ha sido enviado por correo a su última dirección conocida. Puede usted obtener mayor información sobre el asunto revisando los autos en el Tribunal. Se le apercibe que tiene usted un término de treinta (30) días para radicar contestación a dicha demanda de cobro de dinero y/ o cualquier escrito que estime usted conveniente pero que de no radicarse escrito alguno ante el Tribunal dentro de dicho término el Tribunal procederá a ventilar el procedimiento sin más citarle ni oírle. Dada en Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, hoy 31 de marzo de 2021. LIC NORMA G SANTANA IRIZARRY, Sec Regional II. Surika Feliciano Gonzalez, Sec Aux del Tribunal I.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA MUNICIPAL DE SABANA GRANDE EN SAN GERMAN.

COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDIT DE CABO ROJO Parte Demandante vs

MARILYN MONTALVO VALLE

Parte Demandada CIVIL NÚM. SB2021CV00004.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO (VIA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: MARILYN MONTALVO DEL VALLE

Se le apercibe que la parte demandante por mediación del Lcdo. Rafael Fabre Colón, P.O. Box 277, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681, Tel. 787-265-0334, ha radicado la acción de epígrafe en su contra. Copia de la demanda, emplazamientos y del presente edicto le ha sido enviado por correo a la última dirección conocida. Pueden ustedes obtener mayor información sobre el asunto revisando los autos en el Tribunal. Se le apercibe que tiene usted un término de treinta (30) días para radicar contestación a dicha demanda de cobro de dinero y/o cualquier escrito que estime usted conveniente a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de epígrafe, pero que de no radicarse escrito alguno ante el Tribunal dentro de dicho término el Tribunal procederá a ventilar el procedimiento sin más citarle ni oírle. Dada en Sabana Grande en San Germán, Puerto Rico, hoy 5 de abril de 2021. Norma Santana Irizarry, Sec Regional.

Aurea Lugo Almodovar, Sec Auxiliar I.

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The San Juan Daily Star

April 23-25, 2021

Lydia Ko stops worrying about winning, and starts to win again

By KAREN CROUSE

L

ydia Ko of New Zealand was strolling the beach at Santa Monica, California, on Sunday when she said she was bitten by a seagull that swooped in and stole the sandwich in her hand. All Ko could do was laugh.

Her return to the top 10 in the women’s world golf rankings after more than three years of absence has much to do with her making peace with her ability to control only so much when she is in the sand.

Or on the fairway.

The day before, Ko, a former world No. 1, had ended a three-year title drought at the Lotte Championship in Hawaii, cruising to a seven-stroke victory fueled by her belief that the outcome was largely out of her hands.

For Ko, who at 17 became the youngest player, male or female, to reach No. 1 and had 14 LPGA wins before she turned 20, the expectations had become a burden that she could no longer comfortably shoulder. So she recently decided to release them to the winds of fate, telling herself “the winner’s already chosen.”

The mantra has freed her to play the best golf she’s capable of instead of expending all her physical and psychic energies on manufacturing success. The results have made her 2021 feel like 2015. Going into this week’s LA Open, the seventh-ranked Ko was 38-under in her past five competitive rounds and has 16 subpar scores in 20 competitive rounds this year.

“It takes a little pressure off to think that what’s meant to be is going to happen,” Ko said Tuesday. “At the end of the day, you don’t control your outcome even though you would like to.”

Ko, who turns 24 on Saturday, never went away, and yet her presence on the first page of leaderboards this year has the feel of a much beloved show returning after an interminable hiatus. After her pro-am Tuesday, Ko was stopped by every player or caddie she passed as she made the serpentine walk through a narrow tunnel and up a hill from the ninth hole to the practice putting green.

Everybody had congratulations and

When she was 17, Lydia Ko became the youngest player, male or female, to reach No. 1. kind words for Ko, who has been one of the more popular players on the tour since she burst onto the golf scene.

In 2012, as a 15-year-old amateur, Ko became the youngest winner of an LPGA event, topping a field at the Canadian Women’s Open that included 48 of the top 50 of the year’s leading money winners. She won the event again before turning pro at 16. The LPGA waived its 18-year-old minimum age restriction to grant her membership and Ko continued her rocket ascent.

She won her first event as a professional, won Rookie of the Year honors, and won and won and won.

She was so consistent, she made the cut in her first 53 LPGA events. She was in such command of her game, she won two majors and an Olympic silver medal before her 20th birthday.

But then the unimaginable happened: Ko stopped winning. Not only did the victories dry up, but Ko struggled to advance to the weekend. In the 12 months before the coronavirus pandemic shut down the tour, Ko missed

four cuts, including one by seven strokes at the Evian Championship, one of the five women’s golf majors.

Ko’s struggles called to mind something JoAnne Carner, a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame, said in 2012 after watching Ko equal her 1969 feat of winning an LPGA event as an amateur.

“They tack a ‘professional’ after your name and all of the sudden you feel like you’re supposed to know everything,” Carner told The Times then.

“There’s a lot more pressure and you try so hard and you put so much pressure on yourself.”

Ko’s swing went south, but her smile never did, though at times both seemed equally mechanical. During her slump, Ko cycled through a series of swing coaches. One, David Leadbetter, who was fired at the end of 2016, was vocal in his belief that Ko’s biggest impediment to success was her overreliance on her parents. He told anyone who asked that she needed to take control of her career if she wanted to turn around her results.

Last year, at the start of the pandemic, Ko made a pivotal phone call to Sean Foley, an instructor based in Orlando, Florida, where she lives. His clients have included Tiger Woods.

“I just felt like my swing was improving but I could do a little better,” said Ko, who began working with Foley during the months when the tour was shut down but the courses in Orlando remained accessible.

Foley’s interest in his clients extends beyond the swing plane, and his whole-person philosophy clicked with Ko. More than any adjustment he has made to her swing, Foley has helped Ko sync her mind and her body.

He reminded her that she can control only her effort, not the outcome.

In the second event after the tour resumed last summer, Ko held a fivestroke lead with six holes to play. She took a one-stroke lead over a charging Danielle Kang into the final hole, a par5, and made bogey to finish second.

Just a bad day at the office, Foley told her. No big deal.

Entering the final round in Hawaii with a one-stroke lead over Nelly Korda, whom she had finished second behind at the Gainbridge LPGA in February, she retrieved one final text from Foley before she teed off. It read: Trust and conviction.

She wrote the words on her yardage book, then went out and played that way, closing with a 65 to clinch her first victory in 1,084 days.

“I think that settled some of the doubts I had in myself,” Ko said Tuesday, adding: “I felt pretty calm playing.

That’s where I feel like it should be.

Like just because I shoot a 68 or 78, that shouldn’t dictate my mood and the way I am around the golf course.”

Ko considered the win as much a validation of her parents, and their approach, as of her and her game. “For them to get criticism I thought was unfair because they’re just doing everything they can to wish me to be happier,” she said.

Foley’s work with Ko is focused on finding that happiness, win or lose. For all her precocity — perhaps because of it — Ko had skipped over that lesson.

She had to learn it the hard way.

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Zeb Powell is looking for the ‘next me’

By MICHAEL VENUTOLO-MANTOVANI

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n a sport whose most famous athletes often are white and usually hail from the world’s most impressive mountain ranges, Zeb Powell, a Black Southerner, is one of snowboarding’s fastest rising and most recognizable talents.

It is a status that Powell, 21, is hoping to use to inspire a new generation of snowboarders who may not yet see themselves in the sport.

“As of now, I’m kind of the face of Black snowboarding, which is crazy to think,” Powell, who was born in North Carolina, said from his home in Vermont, where he spent much of this winter sidelined with a torn meniscus. The injury forced him to miss this year’s X Games, the event at which he won a gold medal in 2020, his rookie season.

It was a bummer to miss the competition, Powell said, but he has long known the power of representation on slopes and on screens. As his online influence grows — even outside the winter months — so too does his ability to reach young athletes who do not see themselves in snow sports.

He can trace his rapid rise to a single trick he performed in the snowboard Knuckle Huck competition at the 2020 X Games. In Knuckle Huck, riders launch themselves into creative tricks from the knuckle, or front edge, of a man-made jump.

On his first run of the night, Powell performed a “coffin to method back flip,” sending the commentators, the crowd and snowboarders watching around the world into a frenzy.

It was a trick Powell partially invented. In the instant before he reached the edge of the jump, he lay on his back, then launched into a full back flip, with a board grab from a supine position.

He not only took home a gold medal, but he also doubled his social media followers overnight.

The hardware and the newfound following were both wins in his book.

Though he enjoys competing, he has always seen those events as a necessary function to build and grow his visibility as an athlete. He is part of a generation of athletes who find being a social media influencer as gratifying as being a com-

“As of now, I’m kind of the face of Black snowboarding, which is crazy to think,” Zeb Powell, who was born in North Carolina, said from his home in Vermont. petitor — and sometimes as lucrative as being one.

“After X Games, I started having all these people reach out to me, saying what an inspiration I am,” Powell said. “I wasn’t looking for this, but now it’s there, so I wonder what I can do with it.”

With his knee on the mend, Powell’s attention remains trained on filming, expanding his reach through social media and being the face of, and for, young Black snowboarders. It has kept him busy during his injury and the pandemic.

This offseason, he will be coaching at the High Cascade snowboard camp in Mt. Hood, Oregon. He hopes to spend more time mentoring, with an eye on organizations like Hoods to Woods and the Chill Foundation, which introduce board sports to underserved youth.

Powell’s influence in snowboarding, and his growing collection of sponsors and accolades, is a far cry from where he started, in the tiny town of Waynesville, North Carolina, on a skateboard.

He learned to snowboard on the wrong foot. A snowboard instructor at his nearest ski resort, Cataloochee Ski Area in Maggie Valley, North Carolina, had 7-year-old Powell try to ride in a regular stance, with his left foot at the front of the

board. He quickly realized he was a socalled goofy foot rider, and switched to the right-foot-forward stance.

“I always liked flying through the air,” Powell said, calling himself the guinea pig of his friend group. “So my friends would always make me try these tricks, and I would just land them.”

He took the tricks he learned as a skateboarder and translated them to the snow, quickly outgrowing his home turf.

His parents soon sent him to Woodward Copper snowboard camp in Colorado, where his talents were recognized by one of his coaches, Chad Otterstrom.

“You just never knew what he was going to do, and he’d always land on his feet,” Otterstrom, a professional snowboarder, said. He encouraged Powell to enroll in Stratton Mountain School in Vermont, a private high school with a focus on competitive winter sports.

Once again, just as on the slopes of Copper Mountain and at Cataloochee, Powell was one of the few nonwhite athletes.

While he never felt “othered” as a Black athlete in a predominantly white sport, he said, his ability to perform at an extremely high level has been a buffer for him.

“It was mainly all-white,” Powell’s mother, Val, a kindergarten teacher, said from the family’s home in Waynesville.

“And there were a lot of families who had a second mountain home at the resort, too.”

Though she remembered everyone at the school being welcoming, putting a 13-year-old in a school that cost upward of $60,000 a year was a strain on the family.

“We really didn’t have the money to send him to snowboard school,” she said.

“We have four other kids. We had two other kids in college then.”

Recognizing the young rider’s talent, Stratton’s administrators offered to put Powell on scholarship. He prospered — turning what he missed out on in vertical drops and fully appointed terrain parks in his early years into his biggest advantage.

“Anyplace I could get air or do a trick off at Cataloochee, I would take advantage of that,” Powell said. “So when you put me on a real mountain that has jumps and transitions, I thrive, because I learned how to do these tricks without having those resources.”

By his senior year, he had multiple sponsorship deals and traveled the country for events, films and social media reels.

The size of his home mountain shaped Powell into a snowboarder perfectly suited for Knuckle Huck. It may be the closest thing to what is practiced in terrain parks and on mountains by recreational snowboarders, and it is different from slopestyle, where riders fly down mountains while hitting a variety of manicured obstacles, and the halfpipe, which was brought to the mainstream by Shaun White in the 2006 Olympics.

As videos of Powell grinding down tree stumps or bombing into drainage pipes began to pop up online, his profile started to increase.

“When I started snowboarding, I didn’t have any influences other than a few older snowboarders at our mountain,” Powell said. “But the more Black snowboarders there are in the sport, the more there will be.”

“I’m making an impact through filming,” he added, pointing to the young snowboarders that look up to him, that see themselves in his rise.

“They’re the next generation of snowboarders. They’re the next me.”

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Antonio Brown settles lawsuit accusing him of sexual assault

By KEN BELSON

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ntonio Brown, one of the NFL’s most prominent wide receivers, said through a representative earlier this week that he had settled a lawsuit brought by his former trainer who had accused him of rape and sexual assault. The statement from Brown’s representative was also released by the accuser’s legal team.

The resolution appeared to have ended the bitter and often public dispute between Brown and Britney Taylor, who filed a civil claim in September 2019 that accused the NFL star of sexually assaulting her twice in June 2017 and raping her in May 2018. Taylor publicly identified herself as Brown’s accuser in a statement issued when the lawsuit was filed.

She said that she had met Brown when they were students at Central Michigan and that they had stayed in contact after Brown reached the NFL, as a sixth-round draft pick of the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2010. Brown had hired Taylor as a personal trainer and, according to the statement Wednesday, they were business partners for a time.

Brown has repeatedly denied the allegations, which the statement did not address.

The settlement announced Wednesday brought an abrupt end to a dispute that led to dueling lawsuits and caustic comments between Taylor and Brown, who signed with Tampa Bay last season and helped the Buccaneers to a Super Bowl victory.

“Having reflected on their relationship, both feel that the time has come to move on,” Alana Burstyn, Brown’s spokesperson, said in a statement.

“Antonio is grateful for Britney’s excellent training assistance. They are pleased that Antonio is doing so well with the Bucs and has a ring. Their dispute is resolved and they wish each other great continued success.”

Asked what prompted the settlement, Burstyn said that Brown and Taylor “got tired of fighting.”

Burstyn and Taylor’s lawyer, David

In the 2020 season, Antonio Brown served an eight-game suspension levied by the N.F.L. because of other accusations of misconduct. The league’s investigation into the sexual assault claim is still active, a spokesman said.

Haas, did not provide financial details of the settlement.

The NFL’s investigation into the case is continuing, a spokesperson said.

Brown, 32, was also accused of sexual misconduct by another woman in a Sports Illustrated report published a week after Taylor’s case became public. Brown also denied that accusation.

The accusations surfaced soon after Brown joined the New England Patriots. The team released him on Sept.

20, 2019, after he sent threatening texts to his accuser in the second case.

He sat out the remainder of the 2019 season, and during that hiatus was charged with burglary and battery in a January 2020 dispute with a moving company employee. Brown pleaded no contest in that case and received

two years’ probation.

When Taylor filed her case against Brown, he countersued, claiming she had defamed him and interfered with his NFL contracts and endorsements.

As his legal troubles piled up and he made increasingly strident pronouncements on social media, Brown went from a highly coveted receiver to an outcast on the verge of being bounced from the NFL. His future on the football field was clouded further when the league, as it continued to investigate Taylor’s claims, suspended him for the first half of the 2020 season because of the threatening texts and his role in the dispute with the moving company employee.

Tampa Bay signed Brown last October, with Taylor’s lawsuit and the NFL’s investigation still pending. Before his first game for the Buccaneers,

Brown said he was grateful for another chance to get back on the field and thanked the team’s quarterback, Tom Brady, who let Brown stay in his Tampa-area mansion. Brown said he hoped to prove himself to his new team and “win them over in my actions, how I move forward and how I handle my business.”

Brown played in 11 games at the end of the 2020 NFL season and during the playoffs, helping the Buccaneers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LV. Even before Taylor’s suit was filed, Brown had earned a reputation in the NFL as a fiery personality. He scuffled with teammates and was fined for touchdown celebrations during his nine seasons with the Steelers, and then had short stints with the Oakland Raiders and the Patriots in 2019.

As a Raider, he fought with the team’s general manager, argued over which helmet he could use and sat out most of the 2019 training camp because of a severe case of frostbite on his feet that developed when he used a cryotherapy chamber. He criticized the Raiders and the Patriots after he was released and threatened to retire on Instagram, continuing to do so in elaborately produced videos even as he publicly disputed Taylor’s allegations. Brown’s tempestuousness ultimately prompted his longtime agent, Drew Rosenhaus, to walk away from a client who earned $77.5 million during his career.

Brown earned $1.67 million on a one-year contract last season, as well as a playoff bonus. He has not resigned with the Buccaneers and is an unrestricted free agent.

Buccaneers general manager Jason Licht said Wednesday that he has been negotiating to re-sign Brown for the 2021 season and that the status of the Taylor lawsuit had not affected the talks.

“So, to have this resolved, it certainly helps,” Licht said. “But it wasn’t, you know, that isn’t necessarily the deciding factor of whether or not we’re going to continue to talk.”

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Sudoku How to Play: Fill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9.

Sudoku Rules: Every row must contain the numbers from 1 through 9 Every column must contain the numbers from 1 through 9 Every 3x3 square must contain the numbers from 1 through 9

Crossword

Answers on page 30

Wordsearch

GAMES

HOROSCOPE Aries

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(Mar 21-April 20)

Ready to try something different? It’s time to confidently explore new options, Aries. This can range from your taste in food, clothes, home furnishings and decorations, to ways in which you might like to increase your income. Thinking out of the box could be a breath of fresh. And if you are open-minded enough to try something completely new, you’ll revel in fresh discoveries.

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

You may be looking at an issue from a variety of angles, but with some intense influences on the go, the current star map encourages you to dig deep as well.

Are past experiences preventing you from moving forward with your plans? If these are connected to finances or a relationship, then talking things over with a friend, coach or counsellor, could help unravel those edgy feelings.

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

Scorpio

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Cancer

(June 22-July 23)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

In the mood for something new? If it diverts your attention away from mundane chores and routines, you may be. You could start the day by wearing something that is a little quirky, but that might net you some interesting comments and set the stage for a new way of dressing. As the Moon glides into Virgo, indulge your creative side with a hobby or new interest.

A dream could capture your attention because of its surreal content that may linger throughout the day.

But might there be more to it? As Venus and awakener Uranus merge in a private zone, it can be telling you something about a relationship issue or initiate a flow of creative ideas. Plus, you might want to keep a plan or relationship under wraps until you are ready to share.

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

Someone you know but haven’t seen for a while, could show up on your radar, and they may have changed quite a bit. You might not recognise them if you bump into them or if they call. But a chat can prove so inspiring you may want to link up more often. Something they share with you could give much food for thought, and leave you excited at the potential for the future.

Keen to experiment with new activities? It may be time to rearrange your home and your schedule.

Whether you want to create your own video channel, learn to podcast or find other ways to express yourself, getting your message out to the world could be fun. It might also net you extra money. You can consider many ideas, but one will really stand out, Archer.

A chat could reveal some surprising and exciting news, or help you see an issue in a way that makes it seem more manageable. Someone’s input can act as a catalyst, if it shifts your viewpoint from uncertain to positive, and encourages you to act. Have a plan for today? An unexpected encounter might change everything, and may lead to fascinating new developments.

The coming days can find you entranced by a novel opportunity or perhaps a budding relationship, but also a tad wary of what might be involved. You may be ready to embrace something and yet hesitate to do so, as fears or doubts could get in the way. You are right to question your feelings, but if you are also excited Capricorn, then consider going ahead.

Leo

Aquarius

(July 24-Aug 23)

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

A coincidence or twist of fate could be a turning point, and one that leads to a new job, contract, promotion or business idea. A desire to explore a new opportunity can be confirmed as being the right choice. With the Sun in a prominent zone for some weeks yet, this is a great time to upgrade your CV and arrange interviews, or to hold conversations with influential people.

You may find someone very engaging, even if you have only just met them. A magnetic influence can find you ready to listen to them, or keen to help with a cause they support. If you sense this person is a kindred spirit, then it might seem the most natural thing to want to stay in touch. To make the most of this opportunity it helps to have something to work on together.

Virgo

Pisces

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

With the Sun and other planets in a lighter and brighter zone, you may feel naturally buoyed up.

Any sense of pressure can lift, leaving you ready to look to the future and explore new opportunities. This could range from trying a course that has a creative or tech bias, to considering a challenge that involves you and your partner. As long as it’s a novelty, you’ll enjoy it Virgo.

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

The coming days can find you perusing ideas and opportunities, and taking the initiative with any that leave you excited. Conversations could encourage you to connect with others who you feel a natural draw to, and whose ideas and outlook might shake up your life in a good way. Are there some things you don’t feel ready for? Try them, as they may make a welcome difference.

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CARTOONS

Herman

Speed Bump

Frank & Ernest

BC

Scary Gary

Wizard of Id

For Better or for Worse

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